How to append text to an existing file in Java?

In Java 7+

If you just need to do this one time, the Files class makes this easy:

try {
    Files.write(Paths.get("myfile.txt"), "the text".getBytes(), StandardOpenOption.APPEND);
}catch (IOException e) {
    //exception handling left as an exercise for the reader
}

Note : Sometimes the above approach will throw a NoSuchFileException if the file does not already exist. It also does not append a newline automatically (which you often want when appending to a text file). 

However, if you will be writing to the same file many times, the above has to open and close the file on the disk many times, which is a slow operation. In this case, a buffered writer is better:

try(FileWriter fw = new FileWriter("myfile.txt", true);
    BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
    PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(bw))
{
    out.println("the text");
    //more code
    out.println("more text");
    //more code
} catch (IOException e) {
    //exception handling left as an exercise for the reader
}

Notes:

• The second parameter to the FileWriter constructor will tell it to append to the file, rather than writing a new file. (If the file does not exist, it will be created.)
• Using a BufferedWriter is recommended for an expensive writer (such as FileWriter).
• Using a PrintWriter gives you access to println syntax that you're probably used to from System.out.
• But the BufferedWriter and PrintWriter wrappers are not strictly necessary.