I. Basic I/O

1. Introducing I/O
What Is a Stream?
Numeric Data
Character Data
Readers and Writers
The Ubiquitous IOException
The Console: System.out, System.in, and System.err
Security Checks on I/O

2. Output Streams
The OutputStream Class
Writing Bytes to Output Streams
Writing Arrays of Bytes
Flushing and Closing Output Streams
Subclassing OutputStream
A Graphical User Interface for Output Streams

3. Input Streams
The InputStream Class
The read( ) Method
Reading Chunks of Data from a Stream
Counting the Available Bytes
Skipping Bytes
Closing Input Streams
Marking and Resetting
Subclassing InputStream
An Efficient Stream Copier


II. Data Sources

4. File Streams
Reading Files
Writing Files
File Viewer, Part 1

5. Network Streams
URLs
URL Connections
Sockets
Server Sockets
URLViewer


III. Filter Streams

6. Filter Streams
The Filter Stream Classes
The Filter Stream Subclasses
Buffered Streams
PushbackInputStream
Print Streams
Multitarget Output Streams
File Viewer, Part 2

7. Data Streams
The Data Stream Classes
Reading and Writing Integers
Reading and Writing Floating-Point Numbers
Reading and Writing Booleans
Reading Byte Arrays
Reading and Writing Text
Miscellaneous Methods
Reading and Writing Little-Endian Numbers
Thread Safety
File Viewer, Part 3

8. Streams in Memory
Sequence Input Streams
Byte Array Streams
Communicating Between Threads with Piped Streams

9. Compressing Streams
Inflaters and Deflaters
Compressing and Decompressing Streams
Working with Zip Files
Checksums
JAR Files
File Viewer, Part 4

10. Cryptographic Streams
Hash Function Basics
The MessageDigest Class
Digest Streams
Encryption Basics
The Cipher Class
Cipher Streams
File Viewer, Part 5


IV. Advanced and Miscellaneous Topics

11. Object Serialization
Reading and Writing Objects
Object Streams
How Object Serialization Works
Performance
The Serializable Interface
The ObjectInput and ObjectOutput Interfaces
Versioning
Customizing the Serialization Format
Resolving Classes
Resolving Objects
Validation
Sealed Objects

12. Working with Files
Understanding Files
Directories and Paths
The File Class
Filename Filters
File Filters
File Descriptors
Random-Access Files
General Techniques for Cross-Platform File Access Code

13. File Dialogs and Choosers
File Dialogs
JFileChooser
File Viewer, Part 6

14. Multilingual Character Sets and Unicode
Unicode
Displaying Unicode Text
Unicode Escapes
UTF-8
The char Data Type
Other Encodings
Converting Between Byte Arrays and Strings

15. Readers and Writers
The java.io.Writer Class
The OutputStreamWriter Class
The java.io.Reader Class
The InputStreamReader Class
Character Array Readers and Writers
String Readers and Writers
Reading and Writing Files
Buffered Readers and Writers
Print Writers
Piped Readers and Writers
Filtered Readers and Writers
File Viewer Finis

16. Formatted I/O with java.text
The Old Way
Choosing a Locale
Number Formats
Specifying Width with FieldPosition
Parsing Input
Decimal Formats
An Exponential Number Format

17. The Java Communications API
The Architecture of the Java Communications API
Identifying Ports
Communicating with a Device on a Port
Serial Ports
Parallel Ports


V. Appendixes

A. Additional Resources
B. Character Sets