Working with Files

Abstract

By the end of this chapter students should be able to:

• explain the principles of input and output and identify a number of different input and output devices ;

• explain the concept of an I/O stream ;

• describe the basic file-handling techniques used in the Java language;

• distinguish between text, binary and object encoding of data;

• distinguish between serial access files and random access files ;

• create and access files in Java using all the above encoding and access methods.