Answer:

A file.

Writer

Class FileReader is discussed in the following chapters. But now let us look at the classes that descend from Writer. Writer is an abstract class from which all character-oriented output streams are derived. All these streams are aimed at receiving 16-bit char data from a program, and sending it to another destination, which may use a different character format (such as UTF format on a disk file).

writer hierarchy

All these classes are character-oriented output streams. We will be especially interested in FileWriter and PrintWriter classes.

QUESTION 10:

(Review: ) What type of data does an InputStream handle?