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Sam C. King wrote:
> 
> How do you combine a RandomAccessFile with Serializable?
>  The purpose is quite simple:
> Let's say that we want to create a random access file consisting
> of an Array of Classes.  Each array element is a class containing:
> Employee Number
> Employee Name
> Employee Balance
> Now we want to set the RandomAccessFile pointer to a particular
> Class element within the Class Array, read in the entire Class
> for that employee with some simple statments from serializable,
> change the data for that employee, and write array element back
> into the file with some simple write statments as in serializable
> write.  This is a simple requirement for C, C++, and just about
> any other language.  Surely Java, with all of its power, can
> deftly handle this little problem.  Yet none of the 22 texts on
> Java that I have here borches the subject.
> Thanks
> Sam       samcking@olypen.com

Serialize to a byte array and write the byte array.  Check out the
ByteArrayOutputStream and ByteArrayInputStream classes.

All the best,
++Brian

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