Hi guys. Hopefully this isn't a stupid typo error question, but...

I have my own object

// examp.java
class Security implements Serializable { String a, b; int a; }
..

And I have an array of instances of that object (which I'm not sure I'm
creating correctly.

Security allStocks[] = new Security[2]

I write the array like thus:

try
{
  ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(new
FileOutputStream("Securities.dat"));
  out.writeObject(allStocks);
  out.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
  System.out.println(e);
}

Then, I read it like this:

try
{
  ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new
FileInputStream("Securities.dat"));
  allStocks = (Security) in.readObject();
  in.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
  System.out.println(e);
}

And I get "incompatible types" compile error on the line that says
allStocks = (Security) in.readObject(); ... the two lines are in two
different classes, how does it even know what type of object is being
read? I don't understand. Is it not possible to serialize and save an
array of objects?

Thanks in advance!

(Sorry about the code, it's hand-typed.)

--Uri