did you file this as a bug report in bugzilla? I didn't find it there. I'll
file it now (we just ran into it and it's a nasty one to find). if you
already have please contact me so I can remove it.
robert
>Vidur,
>
>This looks in same ways similar to the problem that I reported a couple of
>days ago.
>
>That is, Orion 1.3.8 allowed non-serializable objects to be returned to
>the client if running in the same JVM (which should of course not be
>allowed).
>
>1.4.3 on the other hand behaves differently - rather than throwing a
>java.io.NonSerializableException (?) or something like that (which I
>suppose would be correct behavour although I haven't looked in the spec),
>it just returns a null and says nothing.
>
>Perhaps you are experiencing this kind of problem?
>
>Unfortunately it is not always clear whether an object referred to by its
>interface type is serializable. I am in the middle of fixing a load of
>beans that returned Iterators, which worked fine on Orion 1.3.8. Of
>course Iterator is an interface, and I discovered when I upgrade to Orion
>1.4.3 that the objects that backed the Iterator objects returned by JDK
>1.1's Vector and JDK 1.2's ArrayList (etc.) were *not* serializable.
>
>I found it useful to use an ObjectOutputStream to write the returned
>object out to System.out, wrapped in a try-catch block that printed the
>stack trace. The resulting exception messages told me what the offending
>classes were (for example java.util.AbstractList$Itr, and also
>RuleBasedComparator which I had been using to sort sets).
>
>Maybe this is totally unrelated but the symptoms seem similar enough so I
>though I'd mention it. Good luck ;)
>
>--
>Thomas Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.gi-technology.com/
> GI Technology (Paris)
>
>On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Vidur Dhanda wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Earlier today I had reported a problem with the Map class. There is
> > also a problem with the List class. When the CMP entity is retrieved
> > and the CMP List field is empty, it is returned to the client as null.
> > Both the Map and the List work fine under 1.3.8.
> >
> > Vidur
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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