Streams usage in Java

could you please advice what Java I/O Streams can be used for? Every of them which is in standard Java 5 or Java 6 I/O API.

For example FileReader and FileWriter are used for reading and writing files. StringReader and Strin开发者_运维问答gWriter are used for reading and writing strings in memory. ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream used for Serialization.

If you know there is somewhere such table please let me know.

Thank you.

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The official Java tutorial has a whole chapter dedicated to streams:

Lesson: Basic I/O (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes)

Data Streams (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential ...

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Java I/O Streams article in Java Reference, tables in section "Specialized Descendent Stream Classes"

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The javadocs for the java.io package would be a good place to start.