The aim of the Streams API is to make it comfortable for developers to open files, urls and other streamable data sources with a unified API that is easy to understand.
The aim of the Streams API is to make it comfortable for developers to open files, urls and other streamable data sources with a unified API that is easy to understand. The API is more or less based on the ANSI C stdio family of functions (with identical semantics for most of the main functions), so C programmers will have a feeling of familiarity with streams.