1	Path path = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(".", name);

Want to read all of the bytes in that file? No more looping, here it is:

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1	byte[] filearray = Files.readAllBytes(path);

Would you rather deal with the file line-by-line? No problem:

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1	List lines = Files.readAllLines(path, Charset.defaultCharset() );

Is it a large file that you'd rather use buffered IO with? Here you go:

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BufferedReader reader =             Files.newBufferedReader(path, Charset.defaultCharset() ); String line = null; while ( (line = reader.readLine()) != null ) { /* … */ }

Surely, it must take more than that to create and write to file, right? Wrong:

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String content = … Files.write( path, content.getBytes(),                      StandardOpenOption.CREATE); // create new, overwrite if exists

You can buffer the output and write all of the bytes with one extra line of code:

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BufferedWriter writer =      Files.newBufferedWriter( path, Charset.defaultCharset(),                                                   StandardOpenOption.CREATE); writer.write(content, 0, content.length());