Name: tb29552 Date: 10/10/98


The following paragraph is a taken from JDK1.1.6
class API specification for tha class java.io.ObjectOutputStream.

"Serialization does not write out the fields of any object that does not
implement the java.io.Serializable interface. Subclasses of Objects that are
not serializable can be serializable. In this case the non-serializable class
must have a no-arg constructor to allow its fields to be initialized. In this
case it is the responsibility of the subclass to save and restore the state of
the non-serializable class. It is frequently the case that the fields of that
class are accessible (public, package, or protected) or that there are get and
set methods that can be used to restore the state. "

I want to create a class which extends from java.util.Observable and
implements java.io.Serializable interface. From the above specification
I cannot serialize the Observable class because:

1.It does not implement Serializable interface.

2.All it's members (obs Vector) are private so I cannot access
them to write to the stream myself.
(Review ID: 34853)
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