The Java input/output (I/O) facilities provide a simple, standardized API for reading and writing character and byte data from various data sources. This article explores the I/O classes ...

An extensible terminal operation, Stream::collect, also is featured, enabling the output of a pipeline to be summarized in multiple ways. Use of streams in the Java ecosystem now is pervasive.

Quick Java I/O question:Let's say I've got a TCP socket open to a server, and I'm writing bytes out to the OutputStream (retrieved via Socket.getOutputStream().I then call OutputStream.flush() on ...