The document discusses file input/output (IO) in Java. It provides an overview of IO classes for input and output streams, readers and writers. It then describes the key methods of various IO classes like OutputStream, InputStream, Writer, and Reader. These include methods for writing bytes/characters to output streams/writers, reading bytes/characters from input streams/readers, marking and resetting streams, and closing streams. The document is intended as teaching material for a class on Java file IO.