SCJP 6 Part V - Serialization

public class SerializableBean implements Serializable {

private String name;
private Date birthDate;
private Double money;

public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}

public void setBirthDate(Date birthDate) {
this.birthDate = birthDate;
}

public void setMoney(Double money) {
this.money = money;
}

public String toString() {
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMMM/yyyy");
return name + " " + format.format(birthDate) + " " + money;
}

}

// data to be serialized
SerializableBean bean = new SerializableBean();
bean.setBirthDate(new Date());
bean.setMoney(10000000d);
bean.setName("Rochmat Santoso");

// create new file if one doesn't exist
File file = new File("myTextFile.txt");

// serialize data
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
ObjectOutputStream objectOutputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(fileOutputStream);

objectOutputStream.writeObject(bean);
objectOutputStream.flush();
objectOutputStream.close();

fileOutputStream.flush();
fileOutputStream.close();

// deserialize data
FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
ObjectInputStream objectInputStream = new ObjectInputStream(fileInputStream);

SerializableBean bean1 = (SerializableBean) objectInputStream.readObject();
System.out.println(bean1);
objectInputStream.close();

fileInputStream.close();