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

The specialisations you mention are specific types used to provide a standard interface to a variety of data sources. For example, a FileInputStream and an ObjectInputStream will both implement the InputStream interface, but will operate on Files and Objects respectively.