Example Program

We will get back to BufferedOutputStream in a while. For now, look at the example program. The FileOutputStream constructor opens the file "intData.dat" for writing. A new file is created; if an old file has the same name it will be deleted. Then a DataOutputStream is connected to the FileOutputStream.

DataOutputStream has methods for writing primitive data to a output stream. The writeInt() method writes the four bytes of an int datatype to the stream.

import java.io.*;
class WriteInts
{

 public static void main ( String[] args ) 
 {
   String fileName = "intData.dat" ;

   int value0   =   0, value1  = 1, 
       value255 = 255, valueM1 = -1;

   try
   {      
     DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(
         new FileOutputStream( fileName  ) );

     out.writeInt( value0 );
     out.writeInt( value1 );
     out.writeInt( value255 );
     out.writeInt( valueM1 );
     out.close();
   }
   catch ( IOException iox )
   {
     System.out.println("Problem writing " + fileName );
   }
 }
}

The program writes four integers to the output stream and then closes the stream. Always close an output stream to ensure that the operating system actually writes the data.