FileInputStream and RandomAccessFile

[kelvSYC]

What's the difference between FileInputStream's read(), read(byte[]),
and read(byte[], int, int) methods, and the RandomAccessFile's
readByte(), readFully(byte[]) and readFully(byte[], int, int) methods,
besides the fact that one throws an EOFException and one does not?

When reading files sequentially, is there a preference for one class
over the other?

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

What's the difference between FileInputStream's read(), read(byte[]),
and read(byte[], int, int) methods, and the RandomAccessFile's
readByte(), readFully(byte[]) and readFully(byte[], int, int) methods,
besides the fact that one throws an EOFException and one does not?

Read the API docs for the methods carefully, and you will see that
the array methods differ considerably in their behaviour.

When reading files sequentially, is there a preference for one class
over the other?

I'd say that in that case, RandomAccessFile does a lot more than you need,
which might cause complications, so you should use FileInputStream
(or DataInputStream, if you need stuff like readInt()) instead.