Applications often input data for processing and output processing results. Data is input from a file or some other source and is output to a file or some other destination. Java supports I/O via the classic I/O APIs located in the java.io package and the new I/O (NIO) APIs located in java.nio and related subpackages (and java.util.regex). This chapter introduces you to the classic I/O APIs.
We don’t describe each and every class of that API though, and we refrain from method listings which do not supersede ...