Writing to a file...

[Blake Essing]

I have a program that has the following method to save data to a text
file:


private static File mUserFile = null;
private static String mUserSolutions = "C:/solutions/User_solutions.txt";

public void saveSolution(String pGameBoard, String pSolution, char pLevel) {
if (mUserFile == null)
mUserFile = new File(mUserSolutions);

try {
PrintWriter printWriter = null;
if (!mUserFile.exists()) {
printWriter = new PrintWriter(new
FileOutputStream(mUserFile));
} else {
printWriter = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(mUserFile,
true));
}
Solution solution = new Solution(pGameBoard, pSolution, pLevel);
saveSolution(solution);
printWriter.println(pLevel + ":" + pGameBoard + ":" + pSolution);
printWriter.flush();
printWriter.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

saveSolution(solution) just saves the object to an internal table.

When I execute this code in Eclipse, it will create or append to my file
like I expect but when I create an executable jar file and run it, the
screen says that it performed the save but there isn't any file created and
if I create the file manually, it doesn't append to it. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.