Java I/O streams; what are the differences?

Question

java.io has many different I/O streams, (FileInputStream, FileOutputStream, FileReader, FileWriter, BufferedStreams... etc.) and I am confused in determining th

Answer 1

Separate each name into words: each capital is a different word.

• File Input Stream is to get Input from a File using a Stream.
• File Output Stream is to write Output to a File using a Stream

And so on and so forth

As mmyers wrote :

Streams: one byte at a time.

Readers/Writers: one character at a time.

Buffered*: many bytes/characters at a time.