Chapter 8

Question 1

What are streams for

Answer 1

For date sending and receiving. We can say its a data channel

Question 2

Does keyboard, mouse or printer are nodes

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

What is node stream

Answer 3

Works as a data channel between nodes

Question 4

What is filter stream

Answer 4

Do additional filtering on an existing stream. It is kind of additional stream. Its work in data processing.

Question 5

What is byte, reader/writer stream

Answer 5

If data handles in byte then stream is called byte stream and if data handles in 2 bytes or character then it is called reader/writer stream.

Question 6

What are types of stream

Answer 6

• Input stream
• Output stream
• File input stream (to connect files)
• File output stream (to connect files)
• Byte array input stream
• Byte array output stream
• Buffered input stream
• Buffered output stream
• Buffered reader stream
• Buffered writer stream

Question 7

What external library is used for streams

Answer 7

java.io

Question 8

What are blocking methods

Answer 8

They block execution of code until they complete