Introduction
Overview
Streams
Wrappers,Buffers
Console I/O
  Text Output 
     Demo 1
  Formatter/printf()
     Demo 2
  Tex 2t Input
     Demo 3
  Scanner
     Demo 4
File Class
  File I/O
  File Output-Text
     Demo 5
  Formatter to File
     Demo 6
  File Input - Text
    Demo 7
  Scanner - Files
     Demo 8
  File I/O - Binary
     Demo 9   Demo 10
File Chooser Dialog
  Demo 11
Character Codes
  Demo 12   Demo13
Object I/O
Types to Bytes
Stream Filters
Other I/O Topics
Exercises

    Supplements
Character I/O
  Demo 1   Demo 2
Random Access
  Demo 3
ZIP/GZIP Streams
  Demo 4
Piped Streams
  Demo 5
NIO Framework
More NIO
  Demo 6

Java I/O is a big issue and we will come back to it often. There are several other classes and packates that we didn't have time to discuss here. Some of these include:

• Java NIO - A brief introduction to the Java NIO framework is given in the Chapter 9: Supplements section.
  
  
• RandomAccessFile - Random access refers to writing and reading from a file starting from any point in the file. We discuss this in the Chapter 9: Supplements section.
  
  
• Piped Streams - these are typically used to send data from one thread to another. That is, instead of one thread copying data to a buffer and the other thread reading from that buffer, the piped stream classes provide a standard Java I/O stream framework to connect the threads via a stream. See discussion with demo in the Chapter 9: Supplements section.
  
  
• Serial/Parallel Port I/O - discussed in Chaper 23.
  
  
• Zip & Gzip files can be sources and destinations of streams. See Chapter 9: Supplements section::
  • ZIP/GZIP Compression and Decompression
    • Demo App

   

The Chapter 9: Tech section uses histograms to illustrate several of the I/O techniques discussed in this chapter. The topics include:

• Histogram I/O Overview
  
• Hist I/O with Get/Set - uses getter methods to obtain the data for saving the histogram to a file. Then read the data from a file and use setter methods to fill the data fields in a new Histogram object.
  
• Demo 1
  
• Hist I/O - Objects - write and read Histogram class objects.
  
  • Demo 2
    
• HistogramStream - make Histogram objects the destinations of streams.
  • Demo 3
    
• Filtering Data - create stream filter classes to process data heading to a Histogram destination.
  
  • Demo 4

It can inially be confusing to find the correct type of I/O classes to use for a particular kind of data. You can check the tables here to find the starting class for your I/O task and ways to wrap the class to add buffering, filtering, and other useful methods:

              Tech
Histogram I/O
Hist I/O - Get/Set
  Demo 1
Hist I/O - Objects
  Demo 2
HistogramStream
  Demo 3
Filtering Data
  Demo 4
Exercises

           Physics
Physics Model
Simulation Design
Physics Simulator
  Demo 1
Experiment Design
Experiment Sim.
  Demo 2
Analysis
Expt. + Analysis
  Demo 3
Exercises