• ObjectOutputStream(xyz)
• FileOutputStream(abc);
• ObjectInputStream
• readObject()

It is worth of revising OutputStreamWriter and InputStreamReader

Algorithms of this example is shown below.

1. An instance of FileOutputStream allows the bytes to be written to file that will be created on the fly, using File class.
2. The object created with FileOutputStream, is then presented to the contstructor of the class ObjectOutputStream, which allows the objects to be written in the file .

   

3. As we know these will appear as text garbage to in a text reader, unless we read via input stream readers as we have done below.

import java.io.*;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
import java.util.*;
//javac Test_OOPS_WR.java
//java -classpath . Test_OOPS_WR
public class Test_OOPS_WR{
/**
* @param args throws exception needed with LineNumberReader
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
File myFile = new File("c:/myjava/File_Class/mynew.dat");
Date today = new Date();

try {
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(myFile);
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
oos.writeObject(today);
oos.close();
System.out.println("doing good");

} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.toString());
}
System.out.println("Written to the file : " );
OOPS_Read oops = new OOPS_Read();
oops.method_objRead(today);
}
}
class OOPS_Read
{
Date today = null;
public void method_objRead(Date today)
{
File f = new File("c:/myjava/File_Class/my.dat");
ObjectInputStream in = null;
try {
in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(f));
this.today = (Date)in.readObject();
in.close();

}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Readings are : " + today );
}
}