The object serialization classes are stream oriented. How do I write objects to a random access file?
Currently there is no direct way to write objects to a random access file. You can use the ByteArray I/O streams as an intermediate place to write and read bytes to/from the random access file and create Object I/O streams from the byte streams to write/read the objects. You just have to make sure that you have the entire object in the byte stream or reading/writing the object will fail. For example, java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream can be used to receive the bytes of ObjectOutputStream. From it you can get a byte[] of the result which, in turn, can be used with ByteArrayInputStream as input to ObjectInput.
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