PrintWriter vs FileWriter in Java

Question

Are PrintWriter and FileWriter in Java the same and no matter which one to use? So far I have used both because their results are the same. Is there some special cases where

Answer 1

just to provide more info related to FLUSH and Close menthod related to FileOutputStream

flush() ---just makes sure that any buffered data is written to disk flushed compltely and ready to write again to the stream (or writer) afterwards.

close() ----flushes the data and closes any file handles, sockets or whatever.Now connection has been lost and you can't write anything to outputStream.