Java.io.FileWriter Class

Introduction

The Java.io.FileWriter class is a convenience class for writing character files.Following are the important points about FileWriter:

• The constructors of this class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer size are acceptable.

• FileWriter is meant for writing streams of characters. For writing streams of raw bytes, use FileOutputStream.

Class declaration

Following is the declaration for Java.io.FileWriter class:

public class FileWriter
   extends OutputStreamReader

Field

Following are the fields for Java.io.FileWriter class:

• protected Object lock -- This is the object used to synchronize operations on this stream.

Class constructors

Class Methods

This class inherits methods from the following classes:

• Java.io.OutputStreamWriter

• java.uti.Writer

• Java.io.Object