Reads into streams using a 64kb limited buffer ---------------------------------------------- Key: ROASTER-97 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ROASTER-97 Project: Roaster Issue Type: Enhancement Components: JDT Affects Versions: 2.18.3.Final Reporter: Claus Ibsen Assignee: George Gastaldi Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.18.4.Final Was tracking down loading file content into as a string or input stream using forge, and got into the furnance source code {code} package org.jboss.forge.furnace.util; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.Closeable; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import java.nio.charset.Charset; public abstract class Streams { public Streams() { } public static String toString(InputStream stream) { StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder(); try { char[] e = new char[65536]; InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8"); int read; do { read = in.read(e, 0, e.length); if(read > 0) { out.append(e, 0, read); } } while(read >= 0); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException var5) { throw new RuntimeException(var5); } catch (IOException var6) { throw new RuntimeException(var6); } return out.toString(); } {code} This is a bit of waste if you load a 1kb file. The JDK has a BufferedInputStream you can leverage. or a BufferedReader.