diff --git a/core-java-io/pom.xml b/core-java-io/pom.xml
index 1437b85ac2..21e931656d 100644
--- a/core-java-io/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-io/pom.xml
@@ -196,6 +196,12 @@
             <version>${hsqldb.version}</version>
             <scope>runtime</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.asynchttpclient/async-http-client -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.asynchttpclient</groupId>
+            <artifactId>async-http-client</artifactId>
+            <version>${async-http-client.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
@@ -365,6 +371,7 @@
         <hsqldb.version>2.4.0</hsqldb.version>
         <esapi.version>2.1.0.1</esapi.version>
         <jmh-generator-annprocess.version>1.19</jmh-generator-annprocess.version>
+        <async-http-client.version>2.4.5</async-http-client.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
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diff --git a/core-java-io/src/main/java/com/baeldung/download/FileDownload.java b/core-java-io/src/main/java/com/baeldung/download/FileDownload.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c7dd154023
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-io/src/main/java/com/baeldung/download/FileDownload.java
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+package com.baeldung.download;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.asynchttpclient.*;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.net.*;
+import java.nio.channels.Channels;
+import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
+import java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+
+public class FileDownload {
+
+    public static void downloadWithJavaIO(String url, String localFilename) {
+
+        try (BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL(url).openStream()); FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(localFilename)) {
+
+            byte dataBuffer[] = new byte[1024];
+            int bytesRead;
+            while ((bytesRead = in.read(dataBuffer, 0, 1024)) != -1) {
+                fileOutputStream.write(dataBuffer, 0, bytesRead);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void downloadWithJava7IO(String url, String localFilename) {
+
+        try (InputStream in = new URL(url).openStream()) {
+            Files.copy(in, Paths.get(localFilename), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void downloadWithJavaNIO(String fileURL, String localFilename) throws IOException {
+
+        URL url = new URL(fileURL);
+        try (ReadableByteChannel readableByteChannel = Channels.newChannel(url.openStream()); 
+            FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(localFilename); FileChannel fileChannel = fileOutputStream.getChannel()) {
+
+            fileChannel.transferFrom(readableByteChannel, 0, Long.MAX_VALUE);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void downloadWithApacheCommons(String url, String localFilename) {
+
+        int CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 10000;
+        int READ_TIMEOUT = 10000;
+        try {
+            FileUtils.copyURLToFile(new URL(url), new File(localFilename), CONNECT_TIMEOUT, READ_TIMEOUT);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    public static void downloadWithAHC(String url, String localFilename) throws ExecutionException, InterruptedException, IOException {
+
+        FileOutputStream stream = new FileOutputStream(localFilename);
+        AsyncHttpClient client = Dsl.asyncHttpClient();
+
+        client.prepareGet(url)
+            .execute(new AsyncCompletionHandler<FileOutputStream>() {
+
+                @Override
+                public State onBodyPartReceived(HttpResponseBodyPart bodyPart) throws Exception {
+                    stream.getChannel()
+                        .write(bodyPart.getBodyByteBuffer());
+                    return State.CONTINUE;
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public FileOutputStream onCompleted(Response response) throws Exception {
+                    return stream;
+                }
+            })
+            .get();
+
+        stream.getChannel().close();
+        client.close();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/core-java-io/src/main/java/com/baeldung/download/ResumableDownload.java b/core-java-io/src/main/java/com/baeldung/download/ResumableDownload.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..55ff485e40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-io/src/main/java/com/baeldung/download/ResumableDownload.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+package com.baeldung.download;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.net.*;
+
+public class ResumableDownload {
+
+    public static long downloadFile(String downloadUrl, String saveAsFileName) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+
+        File outputFile = new File(saveAsFileName);
+        URLConnection downloadFileConnection = new URI(downloadUrl).toURL()
+            .openConnection();
+        return transferDataAndGetBytesDownloaded(downloadFileConnection, outputFile);
+    }
+
+    private static long transferDataAndGetBytesDownloaded(URLConnection downloadFileConnection, File outputFile) throws IOException {
+
+        long bytesDownloaded = 0;
+        try (InputStream is = downloadFileConnection.getInputStream(); OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outputFile, true)) {
+
+            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
+
+            int bytesCount;
+            while ((bytesCount = is.read(buffer)) > 0) {
+                os.write(buffer, 0, bytesCount);
+                bytesDownloaded += bytesCount;
+            }
+        }
+        return bytesDownloaded;
+    }
+
+    public static long downloadFileWithResume(String downloadUrl, String saveAsFileName) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+        File outputFile = new File(saveAsFileName);
+
+        URLConnection downloadFileConnection = addFileResumeFunctionality(downloadUrl, outputFile);
+        return transferDataAndGetBytesDownloaded(downloadFileConnection, outputFile);
+    }
+
+    private static URLConnection addFileResumeFunctionality(String downloadUrl, File outputFile) throws IOException, URISyntaxException, ProtocolException, ProtocolException {
+        long existingFileSize = 0L;
+        URLConnection downloadFileConnection = new URI(downloadUrl).toURL()
+            .openConnection();
+
+        if (outputFile.exists() && downloadFileConnection instanceof HttpURLConnection) {
+            HttpURLConnection httpFileConnection = (HttpURLConnection) downloadFileConnection;
+
+            HttpURLConnection tmpFileConn = (HttpURLConnection) new URI(downloadUrl).toURL()
+                .openConnection();
+            tmpFileConn.setRequestMethod("HEAD");
+            long fileLength = tmpFileConn.getContentLengthLong();
+            existingFileSize = outputFile.length();
+
+            if (existingFileSize < fileLength) {
+                httpFileConnection.setRequestProperty("Range", "bytes=" + existingFileSize + "-" + fileLength);
+            } else {
+                throw new IOException("File Download already completed.");
+            }
+        }
+        return downloadFileConnection;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/core-java-io/src/test/java/com/baeldung/download/FileDownloadIntegrationTest.java b/core-java-io/src/test/java/com/baeldung/download/FileDownloadIntegrationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..81ac391958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-java-io/src/test/java/com/baeldung/download/FileDownloadIntegrationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+package com.baeldung.download;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.security.MessageDigest;
+import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+
+import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
+
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class FileDownloadIntegrationTest {
+    
+    static String FILE_URL = "http://ovh.net/files/1Mio.dat";
+    static String FILE_NAME = "file.dat";
+    static String FILE_MD5_HASH = "6cb91af4ed4c60c11613b75cd1fc6116";
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenJavaIO_whenDownloadingFile_thenDownloadShouldBeCorrect() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException {
+        
+        FileDownload.downloadWithJavaIO(FILE_URL, FILE_NAME);
+        assertTrue(checkMd5Hash(FILE_NAME));
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenJavaNIO_whenDownloadingFile_thenDownloadShouldBeCorrect() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException {
+        
+        FileDownload.downloadWithJavaNIO(FILE_URL, FILE_NAME);
+        assertTrue(checkMd5Hash(FILE_NAME));
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenJava7IO_whenDownloadingFile_thenDownloadShouldBeCorrect() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException {
+        
+        FileDownload.downloadWithJava7IO(FILE_URL, FILE_NAME);
+        assertTrue(checkMd5Hash(FILE_NAME));
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenAHCLibrary_whenDownloadingFile_thenDownloadShouldBeCorrect() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException {
+        
+        FileDownload.downloadWithAHC(FILE_URL, FILE_NAME);
+        assertTrue(checkMd5Hash(FILE_NAME));
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenApacheCommonsIO_whenDownloadingFile_thenDownloadShouldBeCorrect() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException {
+        
+        FileDownload.downloadWithApacheCommons(FILE_URL, FILE_NAME);
+        assertTrue(checkMd5Hash(FILE_NAME));
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenJavaIO_whenDownloadingFileStops_thenDownloadShouldBeResumedCorrectly() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException, URISyntaxException {
+        
+        ResumableDownload.downloadFileWithResume(FILE_URL, FILE_NAME);
+        assertTrue(checkMd5Hash(FILE_NAME));
+    }
+    
+    private boolean checkMd5Hash(String filename) throws IOException, NoSuchAlgorithmException {
+        
+        MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
+        md.update(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(filename)));
+        byte[] digest = md.digest();
+        String myChecksum = DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary(digest);
+        
+        return myChecksum.equalsIgnoreCase(FILE_MD5_HASH);
+    }
+    
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void setup() throws IOException {
+        if (Files.exists(Paths.get(FILE_NAME))) {
+            Files.delete(Paths.get(FILE_NAME));
+        }
+    }
+    
+    @After
+    public void cleanup() throws IOException {
+        if (Files.exists(Paths.get(FILE_NAME))) {
+            Files.delete(Paths.get(FILE_NAME));
+        }
+    }
+}