 <p>Signals that an end of file or end of stream has been reached unexpectedly during input. This exception is mainly used by data input streams to signal end of stream. Note that many other input operations return a special value on end of stream rather than throwing an exception.</p> <p>and you can see that as below <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/EOFException.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/EOFException.html</a></p>