Can I wrote an object to files and later on retrieves it with its integrety intact? Is there a ready made function or do I have to write one?
I am new to Java, is this what one calls serialization?
bumsfeld 413 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
jwenting 1,889 duckman Team Colleague
yes, that's serialization.
It works if you take some basic precautions (like making sure every field in your class is itself Serializable or transient).
Of course you should mark things that rely on external data as being transient so they don't get serialized as those external resources likely will not exist or be different when you deserialize it again.
bumsfeld 413 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
Thank yo so much! I need to study this more.
freesoft_2000 9 Practically a Master Poster
Hi everyone,
Soory to go off topic for a while but i saw you avatar its the firebird. Any relation to janus software?
Richard West
mmiikkee12 1 Posting Whiz in Training
Try using ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream.
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