Devoxx: Introduction to Asynchronous I/O (NIO.2) using the Grizzly Framework by Jean-Francois Arcand

I was hoping to get a general 'New NIO' overview, but Jean-François concentrated most of his talk discussing low-level Asynchronous IO usage patterns in Grizzly using New-NIO:

• waiting for Java 7
• 'Selector' and Notify principle
• 'CompletionHandler' that uses a 'Future' to listen to the socket without wasting threads
• thread pools: fixed, cached thread pools built-in to the kernel (but: risk of blocking the kernel!)

Other New NIO features in java.nio.file:

• FileSystem
• FileRef for having native symbolic links in Java
• Path
• FileStore

references:

• http://www.devoxx.com/display/JV08/Introduction+to+NIO.2
• https://grizzly.dev.java.net/