FileChannel

[dewitrydan]

I am learning about the FileChannel class.
My code using the FileChannel is:

String data = "friends.txt";
			FileInputStream inData = new FileInputStream(data);
			FileChannel inChannel = inData.getChannel();
			long inSize = inChannel.size();
			ByteBuffer source = ByteBuffer.allocate((int) inSize);
			inChannel.read(source, 0);
			source.position(0);
			System.out.println("Original byte data: ");
			for (int i = 0; source.remaining() > 0; i++) {
				System.out.print(source.get());
			}

I am really confused as to what the benefits are of using the FileChannel class as opposed to using:
FileInputStream and BufferedInputStream classes ?
I might be missing something really obvious.
Thank you

[dewitrydan]

anyone?.........

[joshdgreen]

It's faster.

[dewitrydan]

cool thanks!