The Java input/output (I/O) facilities provide a simple, standardized API for reading and writing character and byte data from various data sources. This article explores the I/O classes ...

The package java.io provides two set of class hierarchies - one for handling reading and writing of bytes, and another for handling reading and writing of characters. The abstract classes InputStream ...

Quick Java I/O question:Let's say I've got a TCP socket open to a server, and I'm writing bytes out to the OutputStream (retrieved via Socket.getOutputStream().I then call OutputStream.flush() on ...

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