A question about serialization.  Do we have to make any instance variables
that aren't supposed to be serialized in the spec as transiet or something? 
If we don't have to do that, we need to document which variables are
serialized in our code.  This keeps people from changing their names or
eliminating them during optimization or something.  I was thinking we could
use a Javadoc like "@serialized" tag to indicate these.  That would also
facilitate extracting the comments for them out and creating our own
"Serialized Form" document.  If we do have to make everything not serialized
as transient, then we don't need to do any of that.

Comments?

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Aaron M. Renn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/

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