java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException despite setLength()

Please take a look at the following code:

RandomAccessFile file =new RandomAccessFile("file","rw");// the file didn't exist prior to this instruction

file.setLength(1000);

file.write(buffer, 0, 200);

file.write(buffer, 200, 200);

The first write() works ok but the second one throws java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException. Shouldn't it just write another 200 bytes to the file since I've used setLength()?

Thanks.

[573 byte] By [swiergota] at [2007-11-27 5:43:15]