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Test file pointer manipulation between FileChannel and RandomAccessFile objects

import java.io.IOException; import java.io.RandomAccessFile; import java.nio.channels.FileChannel; public class MainClass {   public static void main(String[] argv) throws IOException {     RandomAccessFile randomAccessFile = new RandomAccessFile("test.dat", "r");     randomAccessFile.seek(1000);     FileChannel fileChannel = randomAccessFile.getChannel();     // This will print "1000"     System.out.println("file pos: " + fileChannel.position());     randomAccessFile.seek(500);     // This will print "500"     System.out.println("file pos: " + fileChannel.position());     fileChannel.position(200);     // This will print "200"     System.out.println("file pos: " + randomAccessFile.getFilePointer());   } }