>
> > You can manipulate the contents of the Hashtable (Having no values
> > for example, and set the capacity to something recognizable), and
> > see if you cant reverse engineer where the loadFactor and threshold
> > are coming down the stream.
>
> Reverse engineering of this nature is not allowed. Serialization of
> classes is to be written according to the javadocs. If the javadocs
> are incomplete, file a bug report with Sun.
>
> We had this discussion a long time ago. If we do find a case where we
> need to reverse engineer a serialized object, someone who has never
> downloaded the JDK needs to do that.
>
Am I right in assuming this is a moot point because serialization does
this anyway and he doesn't need to have read/writeObject serialize those
fields (As they are listed in the docs)?
Scott
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