diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/.gitignore b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c61d35324d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+0.*
+
+# Files generated by integration tests
+# *.txt
+/temp
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..36d6848998
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <artifactId>core-java-nio</artifactId>
+    <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>core-java-nio</name>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+    <parent>
+      <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+      <artifactId>parent-java</artifactId>
+      <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      <relativePath>../../parent-java</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+</project>
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diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/java/com/baeldung/filechannel/FileChannelUnitTest.java b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/java/com/baeldung/filechannel/FileChannelUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d661b8f7fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/java/com/baeldung/filechannel/FileChannelUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+package com.baeldung.filechannel;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.MappedByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
+import java.nio.channels.FileLock;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class FileChannelUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenFile_whenReadWithFileChannelUsingRandomAccessFile_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+
+        try (RandomAccessFile reader = new RandomAccessFile("src/test/resources/test_read.in", "r"); 
+            FileChannel channel = reader.getChannel(); 
+            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
+
+            int bufferSize = 1024;
+            if (bufferSize > channel.size()) {
+                bufferSize = (int) channel.size();
+            }
+            ByteBuffer buff = ByteBuffer.allocate(bufferSize);
+
+            while (channel.read(buff) > 0) {
+                out.write(buff.array(), 0, buff.position());
+                buff.clear();
+            }
+
+            String fileContent = new String(out.toByteArray(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+            assertEquals("Hello world", fileContent);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenFile_whenReadWithFileChannelUsingFileInputStream_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+
+        try (ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); 
+            FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream("src/test/resources/test_read.in"); 
+            FileChannel channel = fin.getChannel()) {
+
+            int bufferSize = 1024;
+            if (bufferSize > channel.size()) {
+                bufferSize = (int) channel.size();
+            }
+            ByteBuffer buff = ByteBuffer.allocate(bufferSize);
+
+            while (channel.read(buff) > 0) {
+                out.write(buff.array(), 0, buff.position());
+                buff.clear();
+            }
+            String fileContent = new String(out.toByteArray(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+            assertEquals("Hello world", fileContent);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenFile_whenReadAFileSectionIntoMemoryWithFileChannel_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+
+        try (RandomAccessFile reader = new RandomAccessFile("src/test/resources/test_read.in", "r"); 
+            FileChannel channel = reader.getChannel(); 
+            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
+
+            MappedByteBuffer buff = channel.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 6, 5);
+
+            if (buff.hasRemaining()) {
+                byte[] data = new byte[buff.remaining()];
+                buff.get(data);
+                assertEquals("world", new String(data, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenWriteWithFileChannelUsingRandomAccessFile_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        String file = "src/test/resources/test_write_using_filechannel.txt";
+        try (RandomAccessFile writer = new RandomAccessFile(file, "rw"); 
+            FileChannel channel = writer.getChannel()) {
+            ByteBuffer buff = ByteBuffer.wrap("Hello world".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+
+            channel.write(buff);
+
+            // now we verify whether the file was written correctly
+            RandomAccessFile reader = new RandomAccessFile(file, "r");
+            assertEquals("Hello world", reader.readLine());
+            reader.close();
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenFile_whenWriteAFileUsingLockAFileSectionWithFileChannel_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        try (RandomAccessFile reader = new RandomAccessFile("src/test/resources/test_read.in", "rw"); 
+            FileChannel channel = reader.getChannel(); 
+            FileLock fileLock = channel.tryLock(6, 5, Boolean.FALSE);) {
+
+            assertNotNull(fileLock);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenFile_whenReadWithFileChannelGetPosition_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+
+        try (ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); 
+            RandomAccessFile reader = new RandomAccessFile("src/test/resources/test_read.in", "r"); 
+            FileChannel channel = reader.getChannel()) {
+
+            int bufferSize = 1024;
+            if (bufferSize > channel.size()) {
+                bufferSize = (int) channel.size();
+            }
+            ByteBuffer buff = ByteBuffer.allocate(bufferSize);
+
+            while (channel.read(buff) > 0) {
+                out.write(buff.array(), 0, buff.position());
+                buff.clear();
+            }
+
+            // the original file is 11 bytes long, so that's where the position pointer should be
+            assertEquals(11, channel.position());
+
+            channel.position(4);
+            assertEquals(4, channel.position());
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenGetFileSize_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+
+        try (RandomAccessFile reader = new RandomAccessFile("src/test/resources/test_read.in", "r"); 
+            FileChannel channel = reader.getChannel()) {
+
+            // the original file is 11 bytes long, so that's where the position pointer should be
+            assertEquals(11, channel.size());
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenTruncateFile_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        String input = "this is a test input";
+
+        FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream("src/test/resources/test_truncate.txt");
+        FileChannel channel = fout.getChannel();
+
+        ByteBuffer buff = ByteBuffer.wrap(input.getBytes());
+        channel.write(buff);
+        buff.flip();
+
+        channel = channel.truncate(5);
+        assertEquals(5, channel.size());
+
+        fout.close();
+        channel.close();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/.gitignore b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..83c05e60c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+*.class
+
+#folders#
+/target
+/neoDb*
+/data
+/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
+*/META-INF/*
+
+# Packaged files #
+*.jar
+*.war
+*.ear
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/test_read.in b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/test_read.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70c379b63f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/test_read.in
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Hello world
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/test_truncate.txt b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/test_truncate.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..26d3b38cdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/test_truncate.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+this 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/test_write_using_filechannel.txt b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/test_write_using_filechannel.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70c379b63f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-nio/src/test/resources/test_write_using_filechannel.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Hello world
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 03d2e5d763..2cbd218fdc 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -392,6 +392,7 @@
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-concurrency-basic</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-concurrency-collections</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-io</module>
+                <module>core-java-modules/core-java-nio</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-security</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-lang-syntax</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-lang</module>
@@ -1074,6 +1075,7 @@
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-concurrency-basic</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-concurrency-collections</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-io</module>
+                <module>core-java-modules/core-java-nio</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-security</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-lang-syntax</module>
                 <module>core-java-modules/core-java-lang</module>
@@ -1560,4 +1562,4 @@
 		<lombok.version>1.16.12</lombok.version>
 		<h2.version>1.4.197</h2.version>
 	</properties>
-</project>
+</project>
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