Serializing text with component

Question

(Serializing text with component)
The text is just ascii text, but it could be a considerable size (like 64k). The purpose would be to serialize, and then de-serialze all of this custom information I need for that component (and some other stuff). An example would be to save a list of names with my 'Name' component.
I don't see any evidence that it is possible...
Thanks,
JR

Answer 1

Well, imagine if we had to do serialization in this
manner (i.e. manually). Not a pretty picture in my
opnion...sure, that's why the API exists... don't take it the other way round and apply serialization to every single piece of data
why do you think that serialization is easier btw ? here's the non-serialized version :
Writer writer = new FileWriter(filename);
writer.write(value); // I assume your text is available in a String named 'value'
writer.close();and here it is with serialization :
JButton container = new JButton(value);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(filename);
ObjectOutputStream outputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
outputStream.writeObject(container);
outputStream.close();Serialization helps you serialize complex objects (like graphical components) easily. It's a relatively heavy mechanism (compared to regular file writing) and shouldn't be used as a standard way of writing text to a file.