Human Readable and Editable Object Input and Output Streams?

[Chip Gobs]

I would like to be able to serialize objects to a human-readable and editable format.
For example the following class
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package com.blah.testing;
public class Test implements java.io.Serializable
{
private String name;
private int countOfSomething;
...
}
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might look like the following when serialized to a file
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begin
type=com.blah.testing.Test
begin
type=java.lang.String;
fieldName=name;
fieldValue="John Doe";
end
begin
type=int;
fieldName=countOfSomething;
fieldValue=17;
end
end
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Is anyone aware of something like a ObjectInputTextStream or an ObjectOutputTextStream that could read and write objects from and to a nice readable format like the above format?
If not, do you have suggestions on how to write classes to implement the above streams?
Thanks,
Chip

[maateen ashraf]

here comes the idea about the use of
BufferedReader for reading
PrintWriter for writing the text format

[Chip Gobs]

A utility that can translate from a file created using
FileOutputStream and ObjectOutputStream into some human readable and editable format would be good enough too.
Of course, it would need to be translated back, too.
Chip

[Chip Gobs]

I realized that the human readable format might as well be XML,
in case that rings any bells for anyone.
Chip

[Michael Hildner]

For fun I started to write a class that would take an object and, through reflection, output it to xml. Is this the kind of thing you're needing?

[Chip Gobs]

Yes. After I realized that I wanted XML, I looked around some on the web. There appear to be some Java Serialization using XML libraries out in the world. One is called JSX.
What I would really like is if Sun would package something like that as part of the JDK, as XMLObjectOutputStream and XMLObjectInputStream (or something like that).
I would like to be able to use this in commercial code without a whole bunch of disclaimers, etc, so using GNU stuff probably is not going to happen.
Chip