RFR: refactorings for Java 5 and 7 features

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 12/17/2013 09:48 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> The refactoring is fine, but this whole method can probably be 
> replaced by a line or two of cod using the nio.2 API from JDK 7, 
> perhaps an adaptation to one of the methods in java.nio.file.Files. 

I would prefer that we consider the use of java.nio.file API as a 
separate (bigger) refactoring.

-- Jon