Difference between Byte and Character Oriented

Byte-oriented

Character-oriented

Transfer the data in the format of byte

Transfer the data in the format of character

2types abstract class

Inputstream

Outputstream

2types abstract class

Reader

Writer

FileOutputStream,FileInputStream

FileReader,FileWriter,

BufferedReader,BufferedWriter

For Character transformation need to convert,

Character write to a file no need to convert

Most preferable to byte oriented data

Most preferable to Character oriented data

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