What is the diff. between character-stream and byte stream which one is better?why?

[avani raval]

what is the difference between character stream and byte stream

[Layne Lund]

I am not entirely sure what you are referring to here. Java does not contain any classes called CharacterStream or ByteStream. Can you provide some more context for your question? Where did you hear (or read) these terms being used?

Layne

[Jimmy Die]

Hi,

Maybe you are referring to the buffers. If so read more on this, try reading the java.nio.*; package ByteBuffer class and the methods in this class.

[KasiMurugan Ramasamy]

Hi,
Some differences are there.

Byte Stream : Bytes stream reads or writes the data as byte( reads as combination 0s and 1s ) from the underlying stream. Such a underlying streams are Socket or file.

Character Stream : It reads or writes the data as character. But interanally it reads the bytes and converting into a character.

Bytes Stream:
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It would be very useful when reading the file or socket and write into another sockets or file. ( Don't need of conversion, but incase of if we use character stream, it needs conversion in both operations)

Character Stream:
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It would be veryuseful when reading the data and directly so it into user. ( User can understand only combination of character). So that we don't need to explicit conversion from byte into character.

Guys Please correct me incase of any wrong conceptions.

I hope you will get me.