Sunday, January 28, 2007

What is meant by Stream

A Stream is an abstraction that either produces or consumes information.

There are two types of Streams. They are:

Byte Streams : Byte Streams provide a convenient means for handling input and output of bytes.

Character Streams : Character Streams provide a convenient means for handling input and output of characters.

Byte Stream classes : Byte Streams are defined by using two abstract classes. They are:InputStream and OutputStream.

Character Stream classes : Character Streams are defined by using two abstract classes. They are : Reader and Writer.



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