Java: A Beginner's Guide, Eighth Edition, 8th Edition

Chapter 10

Using I/O

Key Skills & Concepts

●   Understand the stream

●   Know the difference between byte and character streams

●   Know Java’s byte stream classes

●   Know Java’s character stream classes

●   Know the predefined streams

●   Use byte streams

●   Use byte streams for file I/O

●   Automatically close a file by using try-with-resources

●   Read and write binary data

●   Use random-access files

●   Use character streams

●   Use character streams for file I/O

●   Apply Java’s type wrappers to convert numeric strings

Since the beginning of this book, you have been using parts of the Java I/O system, such as println( ). However, ...