yDb();
    } </pre>
          <p>This next method loads the vendor database. This method
      uses serialization to convert the <code class="classname">Vendor</code> object
      to a <code class="classname">DatabaseEntry</code> object.</p>
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          <pre class="programlisting">   private void loadVendorsDb() 
            throws DatabaseException {

        // loadFile opens a flat-text file that contains our data
        // and loads it into a list for us to work with. Th