The Stream Classes

Almost all the classes that work directly with streams are part of the java.io package. (There are also a few more in the sun.io and sun.net packages, but those are deliberately hidden from you. There are also a couple in java.util.zip.) The two main classes are java.io.InputStream and java.io.OutputStream. These are abstract base classes for many different subclasses with more specialized abilities, including:


	BufferedInputStream 
	
BufferedOutputStream 
      	
ByteArrayInputStream 
      	
ByteArrayOutputStream 
      	
DataInputStream 
      	
DataOutputStream 
      	
FileInputStream 
      	
FileOutputStream 
      	
FilterInputStream 
      	
FilterOutputStream 
      	
LineNumberInputStream 
      	
ObjectInputStream 
      	
ObjectOutputStream 
      	
PipedInputStream 
      	
PipedOutputStream 
      	
PrintStream 
      	
PushbackInputStream 
      	
SequenceInputStream 
      	
StringBufferInputStream

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Last Modified August 15, 1997
Copyright 1997 Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu