Can I use both PrintWriter and BufferedOutputStream on the same outputstream?

Question

Can I use both PrintWriter and BufferedOutputStream on the same outputstream?

The situation is this:

I\'m having a SSLSocket program and I want to be able to tra

Answer 1

PrintWriter is just a wrapper around original OutputStream. BufferedOutputStream is a wrapper around OutputStream too. So you can use both. Why not?

Single thing you should to consider - you should be carefull working with both stream and writer in multithread environment because you can get unpredictable result.

The java.io.Writer class (super class for PrintWriter) use itself as a lock object. So you can also probably use it to synchronize multiple threads.