How to open a .dat file in java program

Question

I was handed some data in a file with an .dat extension. I need to read this data in a java program and build the data into some objects we defined. I tried the following, b

Answer 1

A better way would be to use try-with-resources so that you would not have to worry about closing the resources.

Here is the code.

    FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("news.dat");
    try(ObjectInputStream objectstream = new ObjectInputStream(fis)){

          objectstream.readObject();
    }
    catch(IOException e){
         //
    }