THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition

Exercise 19.1: Add doc comments to your LinkedList class from Exercise 2.16. Generate the javadoc and ask someone else to write ...

your documentation. 19.5.1. Package and Overview Documentation Doc comments associate documentation with elements in source file ...

documentation. Doc comments require write access to the source, and technical writers often do not have permission to modify sou ...

originally stood for "non-blocking" because one of the key differences between channel-based I/O and stream-based I/O is that ch ...

The IOException class is used by many methods in java.io to signal exceptional conditions. Some extended classes of IOException ...

All byte streams have some things in common. For example, all streams support the notion of being open or closed. You open a str ...

returns an int instead of an actual byte value because it needs to return all valid byte values plus a flag value to indicate th ...

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { InputStream in; if (args.length == 0) in = System.in; else in = new ...

public voidflush()throws IOException Flushes the stream. If the stream has buffered any bytes from the various write methods, fl ...

Manipulating data from a stream after it has been read, or before it is written, is often achieved by writing Filter streams, ra ...

20.3.1. Reader The abstract class Reader provides a character stream analogous to the byte stream InputStream and the methods of ...

have become available by the time the invocation occurs. public abstract voidclose()throws IOException Closes the stream. This m ...

20.3.2. Writer The abstract class Writer provides a stream analogous to OutputStream but designed for use with characters instea ...

improve performance if they also override other methods. Writer also implements the java.lang.Appendable interfacesee page 332. ...

Creates an InputStreamReader to read from the given InputStream using the given character set encoding. publicInputStreamReader( ...

You can also use the data output stream you will learn about in Section 20.6.2 on page 539 to write characters as bytes using a ...

20.5.1. Synchronization and Concurrency Both the byte streams and the characters streams define synchronization policies though ...

20.5.2. Filter Streams Filter streamsFilterInputStream, FilterOutputStream, FilterReader, and FilterWriterhelp you chain streams ...

We use a string as our data source by using a StringReader (see Section 20.5.7 on page 523). The StringReader is then wrapped by ...

new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(path)); You create a FileOutputStream with the path, put a BufferedOutputStream in ...