Actually, you are wrong but your comments helped me find the general cause of the problem...it is not a bug in Tomcat...comments below....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kjome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just because you are creating an inner class within a servlet does not mean > that that inner class now gets access to the ServletConfig. Yes, I should have access to it -- inner classes have access to their parent's fields. In this case my inner class *should* have complete access to the ServletConfig object stored in GenericServlet. By the time my init() is called, the ServletConfig object has already beens set by GenericServlet.init(ServletConfig config). The problem is that the ServletConfig object in GenericServlet is transient. When I serialize the Inner object the following objects get serialized as well: 1. My Servlet 2. GenericServlet (contains the transient ServletConfig object) I have more investigation to do.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
