Hi,
Its not a servlets ques., but a basic Java question.
A Writer is Java2's answer to dealing with character streams. Whenever, you
need to deal with characters, you would use a Reader/Writer. Whenever you need
to deal with dataformat other than characters(say images), u would use
outputstreams/inputstreams.
Mapping these points on to servlets would mean(i guess), if u need to generate
a simple html page, displaying character data, u would use getWriter() and
in case u need to display an image, for eg., u would use getOutputStream.
Hope, I made myself clear.
(Bigbosses - plz correct me if i m wrong)
rgds,
ips
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C H A N C E F A V O R S T H E P R E P A R E D M I N D.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:41:18 sri alaganum wrote:
>Hi everybody,
> Sorry for asking this basic question, but
>I would like to know the difference between
>getWriter() and getOutputStream() methods of
>HTTPServletResponse Object. Can anybody please clarify
>this question or provide me with any resources.
>
>Thanking you in advance,
>
>Sri
>
>
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