How to Copy File in Java Program - Example Tutorial

How to copy files in Java from one directory to another is a common requirement, given that there is no direct method in File API for copying files from one location to another. A painful way of copying files is reading from FileInputStream and writing the same data to FileOutputStream to another directory. Though this process works it's pretty raw to work with and the best approach is for anyone to create a library for common File operations like cut, copy, paste, etc. 

How to Convert Byte Array to InputStream and OutputStream in Java? Example

Are you stuck with your coding because you have a byte array and the next method in the chain needs an InputStream? don't worry Java has a solution for that, You can use ByteArrayInputStream to convert byte array to InputStream in Java. This class takes a byte array as the source and since it's a subclass of InputStream, you can easily pass this to any method, which accepts InputStream as a parameter. Though most of the API like JDBC and File API allows you to read directly from InputStream because this allows you to process an arbitrary content with limited heap space. You should take advantage of this and directly read from InputStream instead of getting byte array and then converting them back to InputStream.

Difference between FileInputStream and FileReader in Java | InputStream vs Reader Example

Before going to explain specific difference between FileInputStream and FileReader in Java, I would like to state fundamental difference between an InputStream and a Reader in Java, and when to use InputStream and when to go for Reader. Actually, Both InputStream and Reader are abstractions to read data from source, which can be either file or socket, but main difference between them is, InputStream is used to read binary data, while Reader is used to read text data, precisely Unicode characters. So what is difference between binary and text data? well everything you read is essentially bytes, but to convert a byte to text, you need a character encoding scheme. Reader classes uses character encoding to decode bytes and return characters to caller.

How to Convert InputStream to Byte Array in Java - 2 Examples

Sometimes we need to convert InputStream to byte array in Java, or you can say reading InputStream as a byte array, In order to pass output to a method that accepts byte array rather than InputStream. One popular example of this, I have seen is an older version of Apache commons-codec, while converting byte array to the hex string. Though, a later version of the same library does provide an overloaded method, to accept InputStream. Java File API provides excellent support to read files like image, text as InputStream in Java program, but as I said, sometimes you need String or byte array, instead of InputStream .

How to find current directory in Java with Example

Its easy to get current directory in Java by using built-in system property provided by Java environment. Current directory represent here the directory from where "java" command has launched. you can use "user.dir" system property to find current working directory in Java. This article is in continuation of my earlier post on Java e.g. How to load properties file in Java on XML format or How to parse XML files in Java using DOM parser and Why Java doesn’t support multiple inheritance . If you haven’t read them already, You may find them useful and worth reading. By the way here is a quick example of finding current directory in Java: