Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

15.5.1 Creating a Sequential-Access File Using Object Serialization

This section and Section 15.5.2 create and manipulate sequential-access files using object serialization. The object serialization we show here is performed with byte-based streams, so the sequential files created and manipulated will be binary files. Recall that binary files typically cannot be viewed in standard text editors. For this reason, we write a separate application that knows how to read and display serialized objects. We begin by creating and writing serialized objects to a sequential-access file. The example is similar to the one in Section 15.4, so we focus only on the new features.

Defining Class Account

We begin by defining class Account (Fig. 15.9), which ...