Java I/O

Preface; ; What???s New in This Edition; Organization of the Book; Who You Are; About the Examples; Conventions Used in This Book; Request for Comments; Safari Enabled; 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 Buffers and Channels; 1.6 The Ubiquitous IOException; 1.7 The Console: System.out, System.in, and System.err; 1.8 Security Checks on I/O; Chapter 2: Output Streams; 2.1 Writing Bytes to Output Streams; 2.2 Writing Arrays of Bytes; 2.3 Closing Output Streams; 2.4 Flushing Output Streams; 2.5 Subclassing OutputStream; 2.6 A Graphical User Interface for Output Streams; Chapter 3: Input Streams; 3.1 The read( ) Method; 3.2 Reading Chunks of Data from a Stream; 3.3 Counting the Available Bytes; 3.4 Skipping Bytes; 3.5 Closing Input Streams; 3.6 Marking and Resetting; 3.7 Subclassing InputStream; 3.8 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 ProgressMonitorInputStream; 6.6 Multitarget Output Streams; 6.7 File Viewer, Part 2; Chapter 7: Print Streams; 7.1 Print Versus Write; 7.2 Line Breaks; 7.3 Error Handling; 7.4 printf( ); 7.5 Formatter; 7.6 Formattable; Chapter 8: Data Streams; 8.1 The Data Stream Classes; 8.2 Integers; 8.3 Floating-Point Numbers; 8.4 Booleans; 8.5 Byte Arrays; 8.6 Strings and chars; 8.7 Little-Endian Numbers; 8.8 Thread Safety; 8.9 File Viewer, Part 3; Chapter 9: Streams in Memory; 9.1 Sequence Input Streams; 9.2 Byte Array Streams; 9.3 Communicating Between Threads Using Piped Streams; Chapter 10: Compressing Streams; 10.1 Inflaters and Deflaters; 10.2 Compressing and Decompressing Streams; 10.3 Zip Files; 10.4 Checksums; 10.5 File Viewer, Part 4; Chapter 11: JAR Archives; 11.1 Meta-Information: Manifest Files and Signatures; 11.2 The jar Tool; 11.3 The java.util.jar Package; 11.4 JarFile; 11.5 JarEntry; 11.6 Attributes; 11.7 Manifest; 11.8 JarInputStream; 11.9 JarOutputStream; 11.10 JarURLConnection; 11.11 Pack200; 11.12 Reading Resources from JAR Files; Chapter 12: Cryptographic Streams; 12.1 Hash Functions; 12.2 The MessageDigest Class; 12.3 Digest Streams; 12.4 Encryption Basics; 12.5 The Cipher Class; 12.6 Cipher Streams; 12.7 File Viewer, Part 5; Chapter 13: Object Serialization; 13.1 Reading and Writing Objects; 13.2 Object Streams; 13.3 How Object Serialization Works; 13.4 Performance; 13.5 The Serializable Interface; 13.6 Versioning; 13.7 Customizing the Serialization Format; 13.8 Resolving Classes; 13.9 Resolving Objects; 13.10 Validation; 13.11 Sealed Objects; 13.12 JavaDoc; New I/O; Chapter 14: Buffers; 14.1 Copying Files with Buffers; 14.2 Creating Buffers; 14.3 Buffer Layout; 14.4 Bulk Put and Get; 14.5 Absolute Put and Get; 14.6 Mark and Reset; 14.7 Compaction; 14.8 Duplication; 14.9 Slicing; 14.10 Typed Data; 14.11 Read-Only Buffers; 14.12 CharBuffers; 14.13 Memory-Mapped I/O; Chapter 15: Channels; 15.1 The Channel Interfaces; 15.2 File Channels; 15.3 Converting Between Streams and Channels; 15.4 Socket Channels; 15.5 Server Socket Channels; 15.6 Datagram Channels; Chapter 16: Nonblocking I/O; 16.1 Nonblocking I/O; 16.2 Selectable Channels; 16.3 Selectors; 16.4 Selection Keys; 16.5 Pipe Channels; The File System; Chapter 17: Working with Files; 17.1 Understanding Files; 17.2 Directories and Paths; 17.3 The File Class; 17.4 Filename Filters; 17.5 File Filters; 17.6 File Descriptors; 17.7 Random-Access Files; 17.8 General Techniques for Cross-Platform File Access Code; Chapter 18: File Dialogs and Choosers; 18.1 File Dialogs; 18.2 JFileChooser; 18.3 File Viewer, Part 6; Text; Chapter 19: Character Sets and Unicode; 19.1 The Unicode Character Set; 19.2 UTF-16; 19.3 UTF-8; 19.4 Other Encodings; 19.5 Converting Between Byte Arrays and Strings; Chapter 20: Readers and Writers; 20.1 The java.io.Writer Class; 20.2 The OutputStreamWriter Class; 20.3 The java.io.Reader Class; 20.4 The InputStreamReader Class; 20.5 Encoding Heuristics; 20.6 Character Array Readers and Writers; 20.7 String Readers and Writers; 20.8 Reading and Writttttting Files; 20.9 Buffered Readers and Writers; 20.10 Print Writers; 20.11 Piped Readers and Writers; 20.12 Filtered Readers and Writers; 20.13 File Viewer Finis; Chapter 21: Formatted I/O with java.text; 21.1 The Old Way; 21.2 Choosing a Locale; 21.3 Number Formats; 21.4 Specifying Width with FieldPosition; 21.5 Parsing Input; 21.6 Decimal Formats; Devices; Chapter 22: The Java Communications API; 22.1 The Architecture of the Java Communications API; 22.2 Identifying Ports; 22.3 Communicating with a Device on a Port; 22.4 Serial Ports; 22.5 Parallel Ports; Chapter 23: USB; 23.1 USB Architecture; 23.2 Finding Devices; 23.3 Controlling Devices; 23.4 Describing Devices; 23.5 Pipes; 23.6 IRPs; 23.7 Temperature Sensor Example; 23.8 Hot Plugging; Chapter 24: The J2ME Generic Connection Framework; 24.1 The Generic Connection Framework; 24.2 ContentConnection; 24.3 Files; 24.4 HTTP; 24.5 Serial I/O; 24.6 Sockets; 24.7 Server Sockets; 24.8 Datagrams; Chapter 25: Bluetooth; 25.1 The Bluetooth Protocol; 25.2 The Java Bluetooth API; 25.3 The Local Device; 25.4 Discovering Devices; 25.5 Remote Devices; 25.6 Service Records; 25.7 Talking to Devices; Appendix; Character Sets; Colophon;