Name: rlT66838 Date: 09/09/97


1) Serialize an instance of DecimalFormat.
2) DeSerialize the serialized instance.
3) Call format on the deserialized instance.

You will get the following exception because
DecimalFormat.digitList is null:

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.text.DecimalFormat.format(DecimalFormat.java:302)
        at java.text.NumberFormat.format(NumberFormat.java:182)


DecimalFormat declares digitList to be
transient and initializes it to new DigitList().
The initialization is not executed
when deserializing so it is necessary to
implement a readObject method which does the
following:

private void readObject(ObjectInputStream in) throws IOException,
{
    in.defaultReadObject();
    digitList = new DigitList();
}


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