Introduction

Avalon Excalibur's Input/Output utilities are in package org.apache.avalon.excalibur.io .

Copy methods

Excalibur's IO package contains a comprehensive set of routines for copying bytes and chars. Routines exist for copying from: String , byte[] , Reader and InputStream , to: String , byte[] , Writer and OutputStream .

Useful java.io.FileFilters

Excalibur includes a number of FileFilters that you can use for your own purposes. This fills a gap in the Java runtime because the interface was specified but no implementations were given.