Java address book

[Skie]

Hey quick question on how the best way to do something would be. For our current project we have to make a GUI address book that works like a ugly version of any address book (gmail for example) Gotten pretty far on the project but one thing I need to do is save the contact information every time the program is closed, then load the information every time its opened. I know its going to have to be done using input/output files but what is the easiest way to code something like that? save each contact in an individual file? If i saved them as one lump file how would i load each individual persons information.

thanks

[sruon]

a .xml is probably what you're looking for, that or SQLite

[Skie]

do you know a good tutorial for xml i haven't used them with java yet. Thanks

[quannum]

when i wrote java ( 4 centuries ago), i'd use serialization.

http://java.sun.com/developer/techni...serialization/

[Skie]

Haven't had a chance to read the article thurowly but looks perfect and explains how to do it ty

[Korietsu]

You can just save the info to a .txt and call the file i/o on close and open.