New Improved!!

Odi fetches me up about exception handling.

Instead of this:

finally
{
 try
 {
   if (fos != null)
   {
     fos.close();
   }
  
   if (osw != null)
   {
     osw.close();
   }

   if (theFile != null)
   {
     theFile.close();
   }
 }
 catch (IOException ignored)
 {
   log4jLogger.error(ignored);
 }            
}

Do this:

finally
{
 close(fos);
 close(osw);
 close(theFile);
}

private void close(Closeable closeMe)
{
 if (closeMe != null)
 {
   try
   {
     closeMe.close();
   }
   catch(IOException ignore)
   {
     log4jLogger.error(ignore);
   }
 }
}

That way, if an exception is thrown early on, your code will continue trying to close the other resources.