Java tutorial
import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.ByteBuffer; import java.nio.channels.AsynchronousFileChannel; import java.nio.charset.Charset; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption; import java.util.concurrent.Future; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Path path = Paths.get("test.txt"); try (AsynchronousFileChannel afc = AsynchronousFileChannel.open(path, StandardOpenOption.READ)) { int fileSize = (int) afc.size(); ByteBuffer dataBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(fileSize); Future<Integer> result = afc.read(dataBuffer, 0); int readBytes = result.get(); System.out.format("%s bytes read from %s%n", readBytes, path); System.out.format("Read data is:%n"); byte[] byteData = dataBuffer.array(); Charset cs = Charset.forName("UTF-8"); String data = new String(byteData, cs); System.out.println(data); } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } }