src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/PrintStream.java

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1996, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1996, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this

@@ -567,10 +567,32 @@
         catch (IOException x) {
             trouble = true;
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Writes all bytes from the specified byte array to this stream.
+     * If automatic flushing is enabled then the {@code flush} method
+     * will be invoked.
+     *
+     * <p> Note that the bytes will be written as given; to write characters
+     * that will be translated according to the platform's default character
+     * encoding, use the {@code print(char[])} or {@code println(char[])}
+     * methods.
+     *
+     * @apiNote
+     * This method is equivalent to {@link #write(byte[],int,int)
+     * write(b, 0, b.length)}.
+     *
+     * @param  buf   A byte array
+     *
+     * @since 14
+     */
+    public void writeBytes(byte buf[]) {
+        this.write(buf, 0, buf.length);
+    }
+
     /*
      * The following private methods on the text- and character-output streams
      * always flush the stream buffers, so that writes to the underlying byte
      * stream occur as promptly as with the original PrintStream.
      */