how to open and edit a dat file which is a database?

Question

I know there are many different ways to open specific dat file if you know the type of dat. I would like to open and edit the dat files which are database here. http://code.google.com/p/android-traditional-chinese-ime/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fres%2Fraw Which software can open this?

Answer 1

There are an effectively infinite number of file formats which all use the .dat extension.

That being said, these files appear to be Java serialized objects, so you should be able to read them in using an ObjectInputStream .