What is the simplest way to write a text file in Java?

You can use FileUtils from Apache Commons:

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

final File file = new File("test.txt");
FileUtils.writeStringToFile(file, "your content", StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

You could do this by using JAVA 7 new File API.

code sample: `

public class FileWriter7 {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        List<String> lines = Arrays.asList(new String[] { "This is the content to write into file" });
        String filepath = "C:/Users/Geroge/SkyDrive/Documents/inputFile.txt";
        writeSmallTextFile(lines, filepath);
    }

    private static void writeSmallTextFile(List<String> aLines, String aFileName) throws IOException {
        Path path = Paths.get(aFileName);
        Files.write(path, aLines, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    }
}

`

With Java 7 and up, a one liner using Files:

String text = "Text to save to file";
Files.write(Paths.get("./fileName.txt"), text.getBytes());