Chapter 12. Using Java's Input and Output Classes You will learn about the following in this chapter: How to read and write byte-oriented data How to read and write character-oriented data How to read and write to and from files How to read from a data source in tokens This chapter begins by discussing the need for a common interface to read data from and write data to various resources such as files, the standard input and output, and the Internet. Then, it discusses the byte-oriented stream classes and the character-oriented stream classes. |