Java I/O

Dedication; Preface; Correcting Misconceptions; Organization of the Book; Who You Are; Versions; Security Issues; Conventions Used in This Book; Request for Comments; Acknowledgments; Basic I/O; Chapter 1: Introducing I/O; 1.1 What Is a Stream?; 1.2 Numeric Data; 1.3 Character Data; 1.4 Readers and Writers; 1.5 The Ubiquitous IOException; 1.6 The Console: System.out, System.in, and System.err; 1.7 Security Checks on I/O; Chapter 2: Output Streams; 2.1 The OutputStream Class; 2.2 Writing Bytes to Output Streams; 2.3 Writing Arrays of Bytes; 2.4 Flushing and Closing Output Streams; 2.5 Subclassing OutputStream; 2.6 A Graphical User Interface for Output Streams; Chapter 3: Input Streams; 3.1 The InputStream Class; 3.2 The read( ) Method; 3.3 Reading Chunks of Data from a Stream; 3.4 Counting the Available Bytes; 3.5 Skipping Bytes; 3.6 Closing Input Streams; 3.7 Marking and Resetting; 3.8 Subclassing InputStream; 3.9 An Efficient Stream Copier; Data Sources; Chapter 4: File Streams; 4.1 Reading Files; 4.2 Writing Files; 4.3 File Viewer, Part 1; Chapter 5: Network Streams; 5.1 URLs; 5.2 URL Connections; 5.3 Sockets; 5.4 Server Sockets; 5.5 URLViewer; Filter Streams; Chapter 6: Filter Streams; 6.1 The Filter Stream Classes; 6.2 The Filter Stream Subclasses; 6.3 Buffered Streams; 6.4 PushbackInputStream; 6.5 Print Streams; 6.6 Multitarget Output Streams; 6.7 File Viewer, Part 2; Chapter 7: Data Streams; 7.1 The Data Stream Classes; 7.2 Reading and Writing Integers; 7.3 Reading and Writing Floating-Point Numbers; 7.4 Reading and Writing Booleans; 7.5 Reading Byte Arrays; 7.6 Reading and Writing Text; 7.7 Miscellaneous Methods; 7.8 Reading and Writing Little-Endian Numbers; 7.9 Thread Safety; 7.10 File Viewer, Part 3; Chapter 8: Streams in Memory; 8.1 Sequence Input Streams; 8.2 Byte Array Streams; 8.3 Communicating Between Threads with Piped Streams; Chapter 9: Compressing Streams; 9.1 Inflaters and Deflaters; 9.2 Compressing and Decompressing Streams; 9.3 Working with Zip Files; 9.4 Checksums; 9.5 JAR Files; 9.6 File Viewer, Part 4; Chapter 10: Cryptographic Streams; 10.1 Hash Function Basics; 10.2 The MessageDigest Class; 10.3 Digest Streams; 10.4 Encryption Basics; 10.5 The Cipher Class; 10.6 Cipher Streams; 10.7 File Viewer, Part 5; Advanced and Miscellaneous Topics; Chapter 11: Object Serialization; 11.1 Reading and Writing Objects; 11.2 Object Streams; 11.3 How Object Serialization Works; 11.4 Performance; 11.5 The Serializable Interface; 11.6 The ObjectInput and ObjectOutput Interfaces; 11.7 Versioning; 11.8 Customizing the Serialization Format; 11.9 Resolving Classes; 11.10 Resolving Objects; 11.11 Validation; 11.12 Sealed Objects; Chapter 12: Working with Files; 12.1 Understanding Files; 12.2 Directories and Paths; 12.3 The File Class; 12.4 Filename Filters; 12.5 File Filters; 12.6 File Descriptors; 12.7 Random-Access Files; 12.8 General Techniques for Cross-Platform File Access Code; Chapter 13: File Dialogs and Choosers; 13.1 File Dialogs; 13.2 JFileChooser; 13.3 File Viewer, Part 6; Chapter 14: Multilingual Character Sets and Unicode; 14.1 Unicode; 14.2 Displaying Unicode Text; 14.3 Unicode Escapes; 14.4 UTF-8; 14.5 The char Data Type; 14.6 Other Encodings; 14.7 Converting Between Byte Arrays and Strings; Chapter 15: Readers and Writers; 15.1 The java.io.Writer Class; 15.2 The OutputStreamWriter Class; 15.3 The java.io.Reader Class; 15.4 The InputStreamReader Class; 15.5 Character Array Readers and Writers; 15.6 String Readers and Writers; 15.7 Reading and Writing Files; 15.8 Buffered Readers and Writers; 15.9 Print Writers; 15.10 Piped Readers and Writers; 15.11 Filtered Readers and Writers; 15.12 File Viewer Finis; Chapter 16: Formatted I/O with java.text; 16.1 The Old Way; 16.2 Choosing a Locale; 16.3 Number Formats; 16.4 Specifying Width with FieldPosition; 16.5 Parsing Input; 16.6 Decimal Formats; 16.7 An Exponential Number Format; Chapter 17: The Java Communications API; 17.1 The Architecture of the Java Communications API; 17.2 Identifying Ports; 17.3 Communicating with a Device on a Port; 17.4 Serial Ports; 17.5 Parallel Ports; Appendixes; Additional Resources; Digital Think; Design Patterns; The java.io Package; Network Programming; Data Compression; Encryption and Related Technology; Object Serialization; International Character Sets and Unicode; Java Communications API; Updates and Breaking News; Character Sets; Colophon;