Please see the attached test case.

Currently, the RMI-IIOP implementation uses a native call to allocateNewObject which avoids calling any constructors. This is incorrect. The default constructor of the first non-Serializable superclass must be called to initialize any state that wouldn't be preserved on the wire. Similarly, this should be done for Externalizables.

Please see the Java Object Serialization specification section 3.1:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/serialization/spec/input.doc1.html#961

and the J2SE 1.4 code in java.io

ObjectInputStream readOrdinaryObject
ObjectStreamClass newInstance

The current result is that these classes won't have their internal state properly restored, possibly violating internal invariants.

See comments section.

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