# Apache Commons IO 2.6 API

Packages
org.apache.commons.io: This package defines utility classes for working with streams, readers, writers and files.
org.apache.commons.io.comparator: This package provides various `Comparator` implementations for `File`s.
org.apache.commons.io.filefilter: This package defines an interface (IOFileFilter) that combines both `FileFilter` and `FilenameFilter`.
org.apache.commons.io.input: This package provides implementations of input classes, such as `InputStream` and `Reader`.
org.apache.commons.io.monitor: This package provides a component for monitoring file system events (directory and file create, update and delete events).
org.apache.commons.io.output: This package provides implementations of output classes, such as `OutputStream` and `Writer`.
org.apache.commons.io.serialization: This package provides a framework for controlling the deserialization of classes.