Display text file in servlet with preserved formatting(newlines, etc)

how do i display a text file in servlet, but all the blanks and newlines are preserved.
this is what i did:
RandomAccessFile text = new RandomAccessFile("D:/FYP/tempMessage.txt","r");
long length = text.length();
byte[] bytes = new byte[(int)length];
//Read in the bytes
int offset = 0;
int numRead = 0;
while (offset < bytes.length
&& (numRead=deCiphered.read(bytes, offset, bytes.length-offset)) >= 0) {
offset += numRead;
// Close the input stream and return bytes
text.close();
String plainText=new String(bytes);
//display in servlet
pw.println("<center>Plain text: " + plainText + "</center>");
the problem here is the newlines are seem to be omitted when they're displayed in a web browser, rendering the displayed text in a mess.
any help are greatly appreciated. thanks in advance :)

display text in between <pre></pre> tags.
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