What is the purpose of System class in Java?

System class belongs to the package java.lang. It cannot be instantiated.

A System class provides −

• standard output.
• error output streams.
• standard input and access to externally defined properties and environment variables.
• A utility method for quickly copying a portion of an array.
• a means of loading files and libraries.

Following are the fields for java.lang.System class −

• static PrintStream err − This is the "standard" error output stream.
• static InputStream in − This is the "standard" input stream.
• static PrintStream out − This is the "standard" output stream.

Lakshmi Srinivas

Published on 05-Feb-2018 20:33:22

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