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Common I/O Tasks in Modern Java
This article focuses on tasks that application programmers are likely to encounter, particularly in web applications, such as reading and writing text files, reading text, images, JSON from the web, and more.
This is better than passing an input stream to the read method, because the library can use additional information from the URL to determine the image type. Two methods provide more control over the iteration process, by notifying a FileVisitor when a directory is visited for the first and last time. Web searches and AI chats can suggest needlessly complex code for common I/O operations.
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