How to write an object to a file.

Question

I have a LinkedList called my data. Is there a way to write this object to a file instead of having to convert the data to delimited string values and storing it in a sequential file?

Answer 1

this is how i write and read objects to a file:
     public void write() {
          try {
               oos = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(fileName));
               oos.writeObject(data);
               oos.flush();
               oos.close();
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.out.println(e.toString());
     public void read() {
          try {
               ois = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(fileName));
               data = (LinkedList)ois.readObject();
               ois.close();
          } catch (FileNotFoundException fnf) {
               System.out.println("noFileFound");
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.out.println(e.toString());