Question

I’m learning java and I have made simple program that simply reads value from JTextField and saves it to file using FileOutputStream.
My question is: is it normal for data to be unreadable (using same program with FileInputStream) after restarting it? If i read it without terminating program it works fine.
How can I make data wrote to file permament?
Edit:
It seems the file is being cleaned when starting the program.
Here is the code:

public class Test extends JFrame
{
JTextField field;
JButton write;
JButton read;
File file;
FileOutputStream fOut;
FileInputStream fIn;
int x;

Test() throws IOException
{
    setAlwaysOnTop(true);
    setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    field = new JTextField(4);
    write = new JButton("Write");
    read = new JButton("Read");
    file = new File("save.txt");
    if(!file.exists())
    {
        file.createNewFile();
    }
    fOut = new FileOutputStream(file);
    fIn = new FileInputStream(file);
    add(field);
    add(write, BorderLayout.LINE_START);
    add(read, BorderLayout.LINE_END);
    setVisible(true);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    setSize(160,60);
    write.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
    {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
        {
            x = Integer.parseInt(field.getText());
            try
            {
                fOut.write(x);
                System.out.println("Saving completed.");
                fOut.flush();
            }
            catch(Exception exc)
            {
                System.out.println("Saving failed.");
            }

        }
    });
    read.addActionListener(new ActionListener() 
    {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) 
        {
            try
            {
                x = fIn.read();
                fIn.close();
            }
            catch(Exception exc)
            {
                System.out.println("Reading failed.");
            }
        }
    });
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
    new Test();
}
}

Answer 1

This fOut = new FileOutputStream(file); will overwrite the file, you need to use fOut = new FileOutputStream(file, true); to append to it.