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Stream Benefits

The streaming interface to I/O in Java provides a clean abstraction for a complex and often cumbersome task. The composition of the filtered stream classes allows you to dynamically build the custom streaming interface to suit your data transfer requirements. Java programs written to adhere to the abstract, high-level InputStream, OutputStream, Reader, and Writer classes will function properly in the future even when new and improved concrete stream classes are invented. As you will see in Chapter 22, this model works very well when we switch from a file system–based set of streams to the network and socket streams. Finally, serialization of objects plays an important role in many types of Java programs. Java’s serialization I/O classes provide a portable solution to this sometimes tricky task.