Articles Tagged ‘nio’

Creating In-Memory File Systems with Google’s Jimfs

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Sometimes when writing an application we might consider using an in-memory file system to speed up data access or to create some kind of cache.

There are different libraries to help us here but one looks especially promising for me because it supports almost every functionality of the Java NIO File APIs added in Java 7 – from creating, reading, deleting files and directory to handling symbolic and hard links or watching directory changes with a WatchService.

In the following short tutorial, I’d like to demonstrate how to setup an in-memory file system within a few minutes and how to access directories and files stored in this file system.

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