What's the big deal about I/O in Java? I always thought things fit together pretty easily. Just want to read some integers from a file?
Scanner in = new Scanner(new File(filename));
while(in.hasNextInt()) {
...
}
How about reading ints over a network connection?
Socket sock = new Socket("foo", 10101);
Scanner in = new Scanner(sock.getInputStream());
...
If you find yourself reading an entire file into an array, you want to easily access the lines of a file in an iterable fashion, or any of this other stuff, just write a 5 line method once and forget about it. Problem solved. There are features from other languages you can't replicate that easily in Java, but arguing about builtin methods is rather silly.
