how to serialize/deserialize static final fields

[Liviu Chiriac]

Say that I have a Web Service that sends the client a ComplexObject. The client needs to return it back after setting its name to either ComplexObject.NAME1, ComplexObject.NAME2 or ComplexObject.NAME3 (static final fields – constants)   The problem is that the static final fields never get serialized/deserialized by the BeanSerializer.   Is this a bug, or intended behavior? If intended behavior, what is an elegant way of doing it?   -------------------------------------- public class ComplexObject implements java.io.Serializable {   public static final String NAME1 = “name1”;   public static final String NAME2 = “name2”;   public static final String NAME3 = “name3”;     private name;   public void setName(String s) {      name = s;   }   public String getName() {      return name;   } } --------------------------------------