Core Java, Volume II—Advanced Features, Tenth Edition

Chapter 2. Input and Output

In this chapter

• 2.1 Input/Output Streams

• 2.2 Text Input and Output

• 2.3 Reading and Writing Binary Data

• 2.4 Object Input/Output Streams and Serialization

• 2.5 Working with Files

• 2.6 Memory-Mapped Files

• 2.7 Regular Expressions

In this chapter, we will cover the Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for input and output. You will learn how to access files and directories and how to read and write data in binary and text format. This chapter also shows you the object serialization mechanism that lets you store objects as easily as you can store text or numeric data. Next, we will turn to working with files and directories. We finish the chapter with a discussion of regular expressions, even though ...