Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features, 11th Edition

Chapter 2. Input and Output

In this chapter

• 2.1 Input/Output Streams

• 2.2 Reading and Writing Binary Data

• 2.3 Object Input/Output Streams and Serialization

• 2.4 Working with Files

• 2.5 Memory-Mapped Files

• 2.6 File Locking

• 2.7 Regular Expressions

In this chapter, we 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 they are not actually ...