What is the difference between append and write methods of java.io.writer?

Question

The java.io.Writer interface has two methods called append and write. What are the differences between these two? It even says that

An invocation of t

Answer 1

As you can see from the documentation, append also returns the Writer you have just written to so that you can perform multiple appends such as:

out.append(a).append(b).append(c)