| serializing an object [message #92795] |
Wed, 26 January 2005 10:04  |
aruna
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I wanted to create a txt/.dat file with some data on it. How should I do this using serialization?
Thanks in advance
Aruna.
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| Re: serializing an object [message #92797 is a reply to message #92795] |
Thu, 27 January 2005 06:38  |
Scott Swank
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Serialization is for converting an object to a binary format that is suitable for network transfer or storage to a file system. A serializable object is one that does not have any external resources attached to it -- so you can serialize it, perhaps save it to disk, later read it from disk, de-serialize it: and voila! you have your object back.
If you want to write text to an os file, then you want to look at classes like (text data) FileReader & FileWriter or (binary data) FileInputStream & FileOutputStream.
Scott
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