Name: tb29552 Date: 05/16/98


One can use readObject() to skip an object in the stream,
but a skipObject() method could be much more efficient by
not allocating space for objects.

This is not something one can do in a subclass because all of
the key methods one needs are private.

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Further any future attempt to deserialize a reference to the skipped object
either directly or indirectly, must throw a suitable exception.

naveen.sanjeeva@eng 2000-03-08