Chapter 12. Using Java s Input and Output Classes

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	Java™ 2 Primer Plus By Steven Haines, Steve Potts
	Table of Contents
	Part II:  Object-Oriented Programming

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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.

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