Chapter Summary

This chapter covered the classes and interfaces of java.io that are used to perform input and output. You explored the input and output class hierarchy and learned how to use stream filters to simplify I/O processing. You learned how the Reader and Writer classes support character-oriented I/O. You also learned how to perform random-access I/O and how to access a stream's character encoding. The following review questions and exam questions will let you know how well you understand this material and will give you an idea of how you will do in related exam questions. The questions will also indicate which material you need to study further.

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