What is difference between PrintWriter and ServletOutputStream ?

Here we will list all the differences between PrintWriter and ServletOutputStream:

PrintWriter	ServletOutputStream
It’s a character stream (useful for text data).	It’s a byte stream (useful for graphical data).
It provide getWriter() method.	It provide getOutputStream() method.
It does character encoding for ASCII / Unicode characters.	It does not perform any character encoding because it if meant for binary data.
It’s a Concrete class.	It’s Abstract class.
Its performance is little slow because of character conversion.	Its performance is fast because no data conversion takes place.
Example : PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("Welcome User");	Example : ServletOutputStream out = resonse.getOutputStream(); out.write(barray);

      

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