Serializable only means that it CAN be saved to disk, not that it will be. You need to either deserialize/serialize the object in the Servlet's init() and destroy() methods, or instruct the object to load/save it's state from those methods. It won't be done for you. (*Chris*)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Avinash Pedgaonker , SA, NIC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 4:03 AM Subject: [SERVLET-INTEREST] help required regarding serialisation of a bean > i am writing a bean for counter. I want to store the counter value when the > server is stopped and reload it when server restarts.I am using JRUN 4 > default web server for testing. > my query is does JRUn automaticaly saves the object and reload it when we > declare a class as implementing serializable? if not the how to achieve it? > > the script i have written is as below. > > import java.io.*; > import java.util.*; > > public class dgftcounter implements Serializable { > private int visitnumber ; > > public int getVisitnumber() > { > visitnumber = visitnumber +1; > return visitnumber; > } > > } > > i found that the visitnumber becomes 0 wheneever the server stops and > restart. it mean the bean is not getting serialized. > how can i write the method to serialize the bean. and how these methods will > get called by server when this bean is getting destroyed at the time of > stopping of server. > > -avinash > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html