Borland® JBuilder™ Developer’s Guide

Chapter 14. Files, Streams, and Serialization

IN THIS CHAPTER

• File Class

• Input and Output Streams

• Reader and Writer Classes

• StreamTokenizer Class

• Object Serialization

Java provides an Input/Output package, java.io, that contains the functionality needed to read and write data from files and streams. Learning how to use files and streams is a primary requirement in modern languages.

In Java, learning how to work with files and streams gives you a better understanding of distributed application design, which requires that information be passed from one system to another. Java streams provide a way to move data and objects from one virtual machine to another virtual machine with little coding effort. The ability to move an object by value over a network ...