Hi, I had a look at the XML Serialization, it does look quite nice, however the docs dont seem to explain how you make a non swing class, or a class that extends swing, serializable via XML. Does anyone know of a magic url that might shed some light on this? Cheers, J Baker -- John Baker, BSc CS. Java developer and Linux lover:-) Sms: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]