More efficient or more modern? Reading in & Sorting A Text File With Java

Question

I've been trying to upgrade my Java skills to use more of Java 5 & Java 6. I've been playing around with some programming exercises. I was asked to read in a paragraph from a text file and output a sorted (descending) list of words and output the count of each word.

My code is below.

My questions are:

1. Is my file input routine the most respectful of JVM resources?

2. Is it possible to cut steps out in regards to reading the file contents and getting the content into a collection that can make a sorted list of words?

3. Am I using the Collection classes and interface the most efficient way I can?

Thanks much for any opinions. I'm just trying to have some fun and improve my programming skills.

import java.io.*;
import  java.util.*;

public class Sort
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String   sUnsorted       = null;
        String[] saSplit         = null;

        int iCurrentWordCount    = 1;
        String currentword       = null;
        String pastword          = "";

        // Read the text file into a string
        sUnsorted = readIn("input1.txt");

        // Parse the String by white space into String array of single words
        saSplit   = sUnsorted.split("\\s+");

        // Sort the String array in descending order
        java.util.Arrays.sort(saSplit, Collections.reverseOrder());


        // Count the occurences of each word in the String array
        for (int i = 0; i < saSplit.length; i++ )
        {

            currentword = saSplit[i];

            // If this word was seen before, increase the count & print the
            // word to stdout
            if ( currentword.equals(pastword) )
            {
                iCurrentWordCount ++;
                System.out.println(currentword);
            }
            // Output the count of the LAST word to stdout,
            // Reset our counter
            else if (!currentword.equals(pastword))
            {

                if ( !pastword.equals("") )
                {

                    System.out.println("Word Count for " + pastword + ": " + iCurrentWordCount);

                }


                System.out.println(currentword );
                iCurrentWordCount = 1;

            }

            pastword = currentword;  
        }// end for loop

       // Print out the count for the last word processed
       System.out.println("Word Count for " + currentword + ": " + iCurrentWordCount);



    }// end funciton main()


    // Read The Input File Into A String      
    public static String readIn(String infile)
    {
        String result = " ";

        try
        {
            FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream (infile);
            DataInputStream in   = new DataInputStream (file);
            byte[] b             = new byte[ in.available() ];

            in.readFully (b);
            in.close ();

            result = new String (b, 0, b.length, "US-ASCII");

        }
        catch ( Exception e )
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return result;
    }// end funciton readIn()

}// end class Sort()

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  Updated Copy 1, Based On The Useful Comments
//////////////////////////////////////////////////

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class Sort2
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        // Scanner will tokenize on white space, like we need
        Scanner scanner               = new Scanner(new FileInputStream("input1.txt"));
        ArrayList <String> wordlist   = new  ArrayList<String>();
        String currentword            = null;   
        String pastword               = null;
        int iCurrentWordCount         = 1;       

        while (scanner.hasNext())
            wordlist.add(scanner.next() );

        // Sort in descending natural order
        Collections.sort(wordlist);
        Collections.reverse(wordlist);

        for ( String temp : wordlist )
        {
            currentword = temp;

            // If this word was seen before, increase the count & print the
            // word to stdout
            if ( currentword.equals(pastword) )
            {
                iCurrentWordCount ++;
                System.out.println(currentword);
            }
            // Output the count of the LAST word to stdout,
            // Reset our counter
            else //if (!currentword.equals(pastword))
            {
                if ( pastword != null )
                    System.out.println("Count for " + pastword + ": " +  
                                                            CurrentWordCount);   

                System.out.println(currentword );
                iCurrentWordCount = 1;    
            }

            pastword = currentword;  
        }// end for loop

        System.out.println("Count for " + currentword + ": " + iCurrentWordCount);

    }// end funciton main()


}// end class Sort2