Alternative to java.nio.file.Files in Java 6

Question

I have the following piece of code that uses the java 7 features like java.nio.file.Files and java.nio.file.Paths

import java.io.File;
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Answer 1

You can read all bytes of a file into byte array even in Java 6 as described in an answer to a related question:

import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.io.IOException;
RandomAccessFile f = new RandomAccessFile(fileName, "r");
if (f.length() > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
    throw new IOException("File is too large");
byte[] b = new byte[(int)f.length()];
f.readFully(b);
if (f.getFilePointer() != f.length())
    throw new IOException("File length changed while reading");

I added the checks leading to exceptions and the change from read to readFully, which was proposed in comments under the original answer.