Weak referencesA weak reference, simply put, is a reference that isn’t strong enough to force an object to remain in memory. Weak references allow you to leverage the garbage collector’s ability to det

In Java 7 the AsynchronousFileChannel was added to Java NIO. The AsynchronousFileChannel makes it possible to read data from, and write data to files asynchronously. This tutorial will explain how to u

The Java NIO Files class (java.nio.file.Files) provides several methods for manipulating files in the file system. This Java NIO Files tutorial will cover the most commonly used of these methods. The F