I read that java applets aren't allowed to read or write to files fullstop but i can certainly read from a file so I thought my understanding of java applet security might need a little updating ...

It's not that hard to perform Java file uploads. The new Servlet and JSP API, along with HTML5 input form enhancements, make Java file uploads, both synchronously and asynchronously with Ajax, ...

Change the text in the "output.write" line to what you want the text to say. Save your project. When you run your Java program, it will create a text file you can open in Notepad.

All of Java's I/O facilities are based on streams that represent flowing sequences of characters or bytes. Java's I/O streams provide standardized ways to read and write data. Any object ...