Code will not write to text

Question

Hello to all:
Can someone give advice to why the code below will not write to the text that I save. In other words, when I write a text file then save it then open the text file again, all of the words that I have written are not seen.
     private File workingFile = null;
  private JTextArea jta;
private void saveFile()
               if (workingFile != null)
                    try
         FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(workingFile);
                         fos.write(jta.getText().getBytes());
                         fos.close();
                                        //write the file out through FileWriter
               PrintWriter outFile = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(workingFile));
               outFile.print(area.getText());
               outFile.close();//close the text file
                    catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace();
               else
       JFileChooser jfc = new JFileChooser();
               jfc.setDialogTitle("Save Document");
               int option = jfc.showSaveDialog(null);
               if (option == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)
               try
          FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(jfc.getSelectedFile());
                         workingFile = jfc.getSelectedFile();
                         fos.write(jta.getText().getBytes());
                         fos.close();
                    catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace();
          }

Answer 1

ok, I found the line that is causing the exception. Line333 which is in
the second if statement , the following:fos.write(jta.getText().getBytes());
Now how would I fix that besides deleting itCan you post the first few lines of that stacktrace? Either jta or fos
(or both) are null; the stacktrace shows you which one caused the
NullPointerException.
Of course you can add a few debug prints just before that line:System.out.println("jta: "+jta);
System.out.println("fos: "+fos);kind regards,
Jos