Really who, WHO? designed java. It's so verbose it makes [something verbose] look simple. The designers must have been in a meeting, I guess this can only be the product of a TON of meetings, and they were all like here's an idea "let's make common tasks simple", and some other guy (probably middle-aged, balding with a harley said "yeah, like reading and writing to files". And then everyone in the room gave him the death stare, Dr Cooper style, and one guy just said "what, who needs to do that?". Everyone in the room just nodded like sheep.
Anyway this class makes life easier, less java-like if you will: