The Character Stream Classes
Character streams are defined by using two class hierarchies topped by these two abstract classes: Reader and Writer. Reader is used for input, and Writer is used for output. Concrete classes derived from Reader and Writer operate on Unicode character streams.
From Reader and Writer are derived several concrete subclasses that handle various I/O situations. In general, the character-based classes parallel the byte-based classes. The character stream classes are shown in Table 10-2.
Table 10-2 The Character Stream I/O Classes
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