On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Mark Wielaard wrote:

> Sorry, my bad. I meant the resulting Objects from some of the methods
> should be serializable but aren't at the moment.

Ok, I get it now.  Ya'know it seems that almost every time I turn around I
run into something new/unexpected regarding serialization.  So much is
underspecified or just plain not documented, that I've gotten used to
"expecting the unexpected" ;-).

> 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.

No problem.  Thanks go to you for doing what you've done.  I certainly can
commiserate with you.  When I took a look at the 1.3 doc for Collections
and serialization I thought "Oh, yuck".

Take care!
--warrenl

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