diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/Expand.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/Expand.java
index db81df4a..430c1e5d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/Expand.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/Expand.java
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@
  */
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
 import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ protected void expandFile( final File srcF, final File dir )
         throws Exception
     {
         // code from WarExpand
-        try ( ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream( new FileInputStream( srcF ) ) )
+        try ( ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream( Files.newInputStream( srcF.toPath() ) ) )
         {
             for ( ZipEntry ze = zis.getNextEntry(); ze != null; ze = zis.getNextEntry() )
             {
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ protected void extractFile( File srcF, File dir, InputStream compressedInputStre
             {
                 byte[] buffer = new byte[65536];
                 
-                try ( FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream( f ) )
+                try ( OutputStream fos = Files.newOutputStream( f.toPath() ) )
                 {
                     for ( int length = compressedInputStream.read( buffer ); 
                           length >= 0; 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileUtils.java
index 7cd1ddcf..7447157f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileUtils.java
@@ -60,8 +60,6 @@
 
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -72,6 +70,9 @@
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption;
 import java.security.SecureRandom;
 import java.text.DecimalFormat;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -374,11 +375,11 @@ private static InputStreamReader getInputStreamReader( File file, String encodin
     {
         if ( encoding != null )
         {
-            return new InputStreamReader( new FileInputStream( file ), encoding );
+            return new InputStreamReader( Files.newInputStream( file.toPath() ), encoding );
         }
         else
         {
-            return new InputStreamReader( new FileInputStream( file ) );
+            return new InputStreamReader( Files.newInputStream( file.toPath() ) );
         }
     }
     
@@ -407,7 +408,7 @@ public static void fileAppend( String fileName, String data )
     public static void fileAppend( String fileName, String encoding, String data )
         throws IOException
     {
-        try ( FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream( fileName, true ) )
+        try ( OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream( Paths.get(fileName), StandardOpenOption.APPEND ) )
         {
             if ( encoding != null )
             {
@@ -484,7 +485,7 @@ public static void fileWrite( File file, String encoding, String data )
     
     private static OutputStreamWriter getOutputStreamWriter( File file, String encoding ) throws IOException
     {
-        OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream( file );
+        OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream( file.toPath() );
         if ( encoding != null )
         {
             return new OutputStreamWriter( out, encoding );
@@ -724,8 +725,8 @@ public static boolean contentEquals( final File file1, final File file2 )
             return false;
         }
         
-        try ( InputStream input1 = new FileInputStream( file1 );
-              InputStream input2 = new FileInputStream( file2 ) )
+        try ( InputStream input1 = Files.newInputStream( file1.toPath() );
+              InputStream input2 = Files.newInputStream( file2.toPath() ) )
         {
             return IOUtil.contentEquals( input1, input2 );
         }
@@ -1123,7 +1124,7 @@ public static void copyStreamToFile( final InputStreamFacade source, final File
         checkCanWrite( destination );
 
         try (  InputStream input = source.getInputStream();
-               FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream( destination ) )
+               OutputStream output = Files.newOutputStream( destination.toPath() ) )
         {
             IOUtil.copy( input, output );
         }
@@ -2226,9 +2227,9 @@ public static void copyFile( File from, File to, String encoding, FilterWrapper[
                 }
                 else
                 {
-                    FileInputStream instream = new FileInputStream( from );
+                    InputStream instream = Files.newInputStream( from.toPath() );
 
-                    FileOutputStream outstream = new FileOutputStream( to );
+                    OutputStream outstream = Files.newOutputStream( to.toPath() );
 
                     fileReader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( instream, encoding ) );
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/PropertyUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/PropertyUtils.java
index 419fc125..cee5cd25 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/PropertyUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/PropertyUtils.java
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 
 /**
  * Static methods to create Properties loaded from various sources.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public static Properties loadProperties( final URL url )
     public static Properties loadProperties( final File file )
         throws IOException
     {
-        return loadProperties( new FileInputStream( Objects.requireNonNull( file, "file" ) ) );
+        return loadProperties( Files.newInputStream( Objects.requireNonNull( file, "file" ).toPath() ) );
     }
 
     public static Properties loadProperties( final InputStream is )
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/ReaderFactory.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/ReaderFactory.java
index 70389d68..c0ae93f2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/ReaderFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/ReaderFactory.java
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
  */
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -27,6 +26,7 @@
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlStreamReader;
 
@@ -199,14 +199,13 @@ public static Reader newReader( InputStream in, String encoding )
      * @param file not null file.
      * @param encoding not null supported encoding.
      * @return a reader instance for the input file using the given encoding.
-     * @throws FileNotFoundException if any.
-     * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException if any.
+     * @throws IOException if any.
      * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html">Supported encodings</a>
      */
     public static Reader newReader( File file, String encoding )
-        throws FileNotFoundException, UnsupportedEncodingException
+        throws IOException
     {
-        return new InputStreamReader( new FileInputStream( file ), encoding );
+        return new InputStreamReader( Files.newInputStream( file.toPath() ), encoding );
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/WriterFactory.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/WriterFactory.java
index 229f1082..6a7af8da 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/WriterFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/WriterFactory.java
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -26,6 +25,7 @@
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlStreamWriter;
 
@@ -169,13 +169,12 @@ public static Writer newWriter( OutputStream out, String encoding )
      * @param file not null file.
      * @param encoding not null supported encoding.
      * @return a writer instance for the output file using the given encoding.
-     * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException if any.
-     * @throws FileNotFoundException if any.
+     * @throws IOException if any.
      * @see <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html">Supported encodings</a>
      */
     public static Writer newWriter( File file, String encoding )
-        throws UnsupportedEncodingException, FileNotFoundException
+        throws IOException
     {
-        return newWriter( new FileOutputStream( file ), encoding );
+        return newWriter( Files.newOutputStream( file.toPath() ), encoding );
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlReader.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlReader.java
index 9864d3df..9af7f26b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlReader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlReader.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
@@ -27,6 +26,7 @@
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ public static String getDefaultEncoding()
     public XmlReader( File file )
         throws IOException
     {
-        this( new FileInputStream( file ) );
+        this( Files.newInputStream( file.toPath() ) );
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlStreamWriter.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlStreamWriter.java
index 2dfcc5f0..99bcf495 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlStreamWriter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlStreamWriter.java
@@ -17,13 +17,12 @@
  */
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
@@ -55,9 +54,9 @@ public XmlStreamWriter( OutputStream out )
     }
 
     public XmlStreamWriter( File file )
-        throws FileNotFoundException
+        throws IOException
     {
-        this( new FileOutputStream( file ) );
+        this( Files.newOutputStream( file.toPath() ) );
     }
 
     public String getEncoding()
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileBasedTestCase.java b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileBasedTestCase.java
index 1be701d8..33b1654d 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileBasedTestCase.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileBasedTestCase.java
@@ -21,14 +21,13 @@
 import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ protected byte[] createFile( final File file, final long size )
 
         byte[] data = generateTestData( size );
 
-        final BufferedOutputStream output = new BufferedOutputStream( new FileOutputStream( file ) );
+        final BufferedOutputStream output = new BufferedOutputStream( Files.newOutputStream( file.toPath() ) );
 
         try
         {
@@ -192,10 +191,10 @@ private void assertEqualContent( final File f0, final File f1 )
          * + " and " + f1 + " have differing file sizes (" + f0.length() + " vs " + f1.length() + ")", ( f0.length() ==
          * f1.length() ) );
          */
-        final InputStream is0 = new FileInputStream( f0 );
+        final InputStream is0 = Files.newInputStream( f0.toPath() );
         try
         {
-            final InputStream is1 = new FileInputStream( f1 );
+            final InputStream is1 = Files.newInputStream( f1.toPath() );
             try
             {
                 final byte[] buf0 = new byte[1024];
@@ -229,7 +228,7 @@ private void assertEqualContent( final File f0, final File f1 )
     protected void assertEqualContent( final byte[] b0, final File file )
         throws IOException
     {
-        final InputStream is = new FileInputStream( file );
+        final InputStream is = Files.newInputStream( file.toPath() );
         try
         {
             byte[] b1 = new byte[b0.length];
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileUtilsTest.java b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileUtilsTest.java
index f29dd418..b24e1a5b 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileUtilsTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/FileUtilsTest.java
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -34,6 +32,7 @@
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -268,7 +267,7 @@ public void testCopyURLToFile()
         FileUtils.copyURLToFile( getClass().getResource( resourceName ), file );
 
         // Tests that resource was copied correctly
-        final FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream( file );
+        final InputStream fis = Files.newInputStream( file.toPath() );
         try
         {
             assertTrue( "Content is not equal.",
@@ -1089,7 +1088,7 @@ public void testFileRead()
         Writer writer = null;
         try
         {
-            writer = new OutputStreamWriter( new FileOutputStream( testFile ) );
+            writer = new OutputStreamWriter( Files.newOutputStream( testFile.toPath() ) );
             writer.write( testString );
             writer.flush();
         }
@@ -1114,7 +1113,7 @@ public void testFileReadWithEncoding()
         Writer writer = null;
         try
         {
-            writer = new OutputStreamWriter( new FileOutputStream( testFile ), encoding );
+            writer = new OutputStreamWriter( Files.newOutputStream( testFile.toPath() ), encoding );
             writer.write( testString );
             writer.flush();
         }
@@ -1137,7 +1136,7 @@ public void testFileAppend()
         Writer writer = null;
         try
         {
-            writer = new OutputStreamWriter( new FileOutputStream( testFile ) );
+            writer = new OutputStreamWriter( Files.newOutputStream( testFile.toPath() ) );
             writer.write( baseString );
             writer.flush();
         }
@@ -1163,7 +1162,7 @@ public void testFileAppendWithEncoding()
         Writer writer = null;
         try
         {
-            writer = new OutputStreamWriter( new FileOutputStream( testFile ), encoding );
+            writer = new OutputStreamWriter( Files.newOutputStream( testFile.toPath() ), encoding );
             writer.write( baseString );
             writer.flush();
         }
@@ -1236,7 +1235,7 @@ public void testDeleteLongPathOnWindows()
         File f = new File( a1, path.toString() + "test.txt" );
 
         InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream( "Blabla".getBytes( "UTF-8" ) );
-        OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream( f.getCanonicalFile() );
+        OutputStream os = Files.newOutputStream( f.getCanonicalFile().toPath() );
         IOUtil.copy( is, os );
         IOUtil.close( is );
         IOUtil.close( os );
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/IOUtilTest.java b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/IOUtilTest.java
index c99384c1..0bbd7b0e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/IOUtilTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/IOUtilTest.java
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
 
 import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -33,6 +31,7 @@
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -95,7 +94,7 @@ public void tearDown()
     private void createFile( File file, long size )
         throws IOException
     {
-        BufferedOutputStream output = new BufferedOutputStream( new FileOutputStream( file ) );
+        BufferedOutputStream output = new BufferedOutputStream( Files.newOutputStream( file.toPath() ) );
 
         for ( int i = 0; i < size; i++ )
         {
@@ -115,8 +114,8 @@ private void assertEqualContent( byte[] b0, byte[] b1 )
     private void assertEqualContent( File f0, File f1 )
         throws IOException
     {
-        FileInputStream is0 = new FileInputStream( f0 );
-        FileInputStream is1 = new FileInputStream( f1 );
+        InputStream is0 = Files.newInputStream( f0.toPath() );
+        InputStream is1 = Files.newInputStream( f1.toPath() );
         byte[] buf0 = new byte[FILE_SIZE];
         byte[] buf1 = new byte[FILE_SIZE];
         int n0 = 0;
@@ -145,7 +144,7 @@ private void assertEqualContent( File f0, File f1 )
     private void assertEqualContent( byte[] b0, File file )
         throws IOException
     {
-        FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream( file );
+        InputStream is = Files.newInputStream( file.toPath() );
         byte[] b1 = new byte[b0.length];
         int numRead = is.read( b1 );
         assertTrue( "Different number of bytes", numRead == b0.length && is.available() == 0 );
@@ -160,8 +159,8 @@ public void testInputStreamToOutputStream()
         throws Exception
     {
         File destination = newFile( "copy1.txt" );
-        FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream( testFile );
-        FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream( destination );
+        InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream( testFile.toPath() );
+        OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream( destination.toPath() );
 
         IOUtil.copy( fin, fout );
         assertTrue( "Not all bytes were read", fin.available() == 0 );
@@ -179,7 +178,7 @@ public void testInputStreamToWriter()
         throws Exception
     {
         File destination = newFile( "copy2.txt" );
-        FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream( testFile );
+        InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream( testFile.toPath() );
         FileWriter fout = new FileWriter( destination );
 
         IOUtil.copy( fin, fout );
@@ -198,7 +197,7 @@ public void testInputStreamToWriter()
     public void testInputStreamToString()
         throws Exception
     {
-        FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream( testFile );
+        InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream( testFile.toPath() );
         String out = IOUtil.toString( fin );
         assertNotNull( out );
         assertTrue( "Not all bytes were read", fin.available() == 0 );
@@ -212,7 +211,7 @@ public void testReaderToOutputStream()
     {
         File destination = newFile( "copy3.txt" );
         FileReader fin = new FileReader( testFile );
-        FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream( destination );
+        OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream( destination.toPath() );
         IOUtil.copy( fin, fout );
         // Note: this method *does* flush. It is equivalent to:
         // OutputStreamWriter _out = new OutputStreamWriter(fout);
@@ -264,7 +263,7 @@ public void testStringToOutputStream()
         FileReader fin = new FileReader( testFile );
         // Create our String. Rely on testReaderToString() to make sure this is valid.
         String str = IOUtil.toString( fin );
-        FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream( destination );
+        OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream( destination.toPath() );
         IOUtil.copy( str, fout );
         // Note: this method *does* flush. It is equivalent to:
         // OutputStreamWriter _out = new OutputStreamWriter(fout);
@@ -304,7 +303,7 @@ public void testStringToWriter()
     public void testInputStreamToByteArray()
         throws Exception
     {
-        FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream( testFile );
+        InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream( testFile.toPath() );
         byte[] out = IOUtil.toByteArray( fin );
         assertNotNull( out );
         assertTrue( "Not all bytes were read", fin.available() == 0 );
@@ -333,7 +332,7 @@ public void testByteArrayToWriter()
     {
         File destination = newFile( "copy7.txt" );
         FileWriter fout = new FileWriter( destination );
-        FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream( testFile );
+        InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream( testFile.toPath() );
 
         // Create our byte[]. Rely on testInputStreamToByteArray() to make sure this is valid.
         byte[] in = IOUtil.toByteArray( fin );
@@ -350,7 +349,7 @@ public void testByteArrayToWriter()
     public void testByteArrayToString()
         throws Exception
     {
-        FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream( testFile );
+        InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream( testFile.toPath() );
         byte[] in = IOUtil.toByteArray( fin );
         // Create our byte[]. Rely on testInputStreamToByteArray() to make sure this is valid.
         String str = IOUtil.toString( in );
@@ -363,8 +362,8 @@ public void testByteArrayToOutputStream()
         throws Exception
     {
         File destination = newFile( "copy8.txt" );
-        FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream( destination );
-        FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream( testFile );
+        OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream( destination.toPath() );
+        InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream( testFile.toPath() );
 
         // Create our byte[]. Rely on testInputStreamToByteArray() to make sure this is valid.
         byte[] in = IOUtil.toByteArray( fin );
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/PrettyPrintXMLWriterTest.java b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/PrettyPrintXMLWriterTest.java
index 128d004f..5abe744a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/PrettyPrintXMLWriterTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/PrettyPrintXMLWriterTest.java
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
 
 import javax.swing.text.html.HTML.Tag;
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ public void testIssue51DetectJava7ConcatenationBug()
             assertTrue( "cannot create directory test-xml", dir.mkdir() );
         }
         File xmlFile = new File( dir, "test-issue-51.xml" );
-        OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter( new FileOutputStream( xmlFile ), "UTF-8" );
+        OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter( Files.newOutputStream( xmlFile.toPath() ), "UTF-8" );
         writer = new PrettyPrintXMLWriter( osw );
 
         int iterations = 20000;
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlUtilTest.java b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlUtilTest.java
index 25ee91ae..acb6a302 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlUtilTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/xml/XmlUtilTest.java
@@ -20,14 +20,13 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.ReaderFactory;
@@ -77,8 +76,8 @@ public void testPrettyFormatInputStreamOutputStream()
         OutputStream os = null;
         try
         {
-            is = new FileInputStream( testDocument );
-            os = new FileOutputStream( getTestOutputFile( "target/test/prettyFormatTestDocumentOutputStream.xml" ) );
+            is = Files.newInputStream( testDocument.toPath() );
+            os = Files.newOutputStream( getTestOutputFile( "target/test/prettyFormatTestDocumentOutputStream.xml" ).toPath() );
 
             assertNotNull( is );
             assertNotNull( os );