Writers and Readers
Jeff Friesen · Apress eBooks · 2015
Java’s stream classes are good for streaming sequences of bytes, but they’re not good for streaming sequences of characters because bytes and characters are two different things: a byte represents an 8-bit data item and a character represents a 16-bit data item. Also, Java’s char and java.lang.String types naturally handle characters instead of bytes. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.