SLF4J (www.slf4j.org) is a logging “facade” library that is very popular among Java developers because it is used by many frameworks and libraries. SLF4J has recently been updated to version 2.0.x. In this article, I will explain the new features of SLF4J 2.x.
The NIO.2 (“New Input/Output 2”) is a new API introduced in JDK 7 to operate more efficiently and uniformly on file systems. This new API covers many file and directory-specific aspects, such as handling attributes and symbolic links. This article discusses one of the most straightforward aspects of NIO.2, listing directory entries using the new DirectoryStream…