Byte stream, a character stream

 

Byte stream:

InputStream
| - FileInputStream (basic file stream)
| - BufferedInputStream
| - DataInputStream

|-- ObjectInputStream

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Reader
| - InputStreamReader (byte-> char bridge)
| - BufferedReader (common)
Writer
| - OutputStreamWriter (char-> byte bridge)
| - BufferedWriter
| - PrintWriter (Common)

 

End of the stream is a stream of bytes, and Reader writer ending character stream are the difference between the two is the time to read and write a byte is read, a character is based.