Serializable interface problems

Question

I am playing around with the Serializable interface and created a class:
import java.io.Serializable;
public class SerialMessage implements Serializable {
     public byte[] from = new byte[4];
     public byte[] to = new byte[4];
     public byte[] message = new byte[50];
Next I created somethign that would use this class
import java.io.*;
public class SOMessageUser {
     public static void main (String[] args) {
          SerialMessage one = new SerialMessage();
          SerialMessage two = new SerialMessage();
          byte[] serializedMessage;
          try {
               ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
               ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);
               System.out.print("From: ");
               System.in.read(one.from);
               System.out.print("\n");
               System.out.print("To: ");
               System.in.read(one.to);
               System.out.print("\n");     
               System.out.print("Message: ");
               System.in.read(one.message);
               System.out.print("\n");
               oos.writeObject(one);
               serializedMessage = baos.toByteArray();
               ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(serializedMessage);          
               ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(bais);          
               two = (SerialMessage)ois.readObject();
               System.out.print ("From: " + two.from.toString());
               System.out.print ("To: " + two.to.toString());
               System.out.print (two.message.toString());
          } catch (Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
Very simple as you can see somewhere I have a logical error classes compile and run but here is the output.
From: as
To: sa
Message: qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbn
From: [B@422edeTo: [B@112f614[B@1d9dc39[root@linux-lev root]#
why is it that I am gettig these numbers which I am guessing are addresses instead of my byte[]'s?

Answer 1

Hi,
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               System.out.print ("From: " + two.from.toString());
               System.out.print ("To: " + two.to.toString());
               System.out.print (two.message.toString());
          Replace your above lines with the following ones:
               System.out.print ("From: " + new String(two.from));
               System.out.print ("To: " + new String(two.to));
               System.out.print (new String(two.message));