Writing to console with System.out and PrintWriter

Question

While reading about Java I/O, i realized that there are two ways through which i can write to the standard output.

Following is the snippet that uses both the techn

Answer 1

different of two approach is:

• When you use System.out.print("") you actually used a PrintStream instance.

• Actually the difference is in two classes PrintStream and PrintWriter which are:

  1. PrintStream is a stream of bytes while PrintWrite is a stream of characters.
  2. PrintStream uses platform's default encoding while with the PrintWriter you can however pass an OutputStreamWriter with a specific encoding. for sample: PrintStream stream = new PrintStream(output); PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(output, "UTF-8"));

You can select a approach with your requirements.