Thanks. I've made the change. Given your suggestion I also found a couple more that we could improve - Boolean.class and byte[].class.
Russell Butek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Emberson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@phc.net on 04/07/2002 08:29:09 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: String class is final: SerializationContextImpl.java The String class is final so that in the method: public boolean isPrimitive(Object value, Class javaType) in the file: if (String.class.isAssignableFrom(javaType)) return true; can be changed to: if (String.class == javaType) return true; Richard