Having problems copying an image

Question

I'm having problems copying an image. The Image comes from my jar file and I'm trying to copy it to my hard drive. The problem is that it seems to add extra characters at the beggining and maybe at the end as well. I used a Hex Editor to compare the contents.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone could offer suggestions.
My code is listed below in case that helps.
"in" is an InputStream, "content" is a byte array, and "out" is an OutputStream
try {
   in = getClass().getResourceAsStream("LoveGameSm.gif");
   content = new byte[in.available()];
   out = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("Tmp.gif"));
   in.read(content);
   out.write(content);
   out.flush();
   in.close();
   out.close();
catch(Exception e)  {
   e.printStackTrace();
   return null;
}

Answer 1

The problem is in the use of ObjectOutputStream... this does not work the way you think it does. It is used to serialize an object to an output stream. A serialized object is just the on-disk representation of a Java object. So, you are getting a serialized copy of a byte array, which is why there are extra characters.
Instead, just leave off the ObjectOutputStream stuff, and write to the FileOutputStream. Better yet, wrap it in a BufferedOutputStream to increase performance.