Hi,
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:33:29PM -0700, Warren Levy wrote:
>
> BTW, perhaps I misunderstand a statement from the mail sent, but I don't
> know what is meant by 'some methods' not being serializable? The methods
> themselves are not serialized (though their existance in the class does
> affect the serialVersionUID calculated). Sun seems to have been careful
> about backwards compatibility when adding new methods to existing classes
> such that data serialized by the new class object works fine with the
> older version of the class (without the new methods). I believe part of
> maintaining that compatibility involves preserving the serialVersionUID
> value in the new class (besides careful design of the additional code).
> Is there something else I should infer from 'serialized methods'?
Sorry, my bad. I meant the resulting Objects from some of the methods
should be serializable but aren't at the moment.
Thank you for your long explanation of things to do to get classes correctly
serializable. It doesn't seem like a simple thing to do for all the
(non-public) inner classes defined the Collections class. If I have some
more time (which I haven't :) I will try to see what I can do about it.
Thanks,
Mark
