serialize an object

[Aaron Raja]

When you serialize an object, what happens to the object references included in the object?

[Venkatesh Rangamani]

Aaron,
The object which are referenced by the serializing object are also serialized PROVIDED they are serializable ie they implement java.io.Serializable, if they dont implement this interface then you will get a NonSerializableException whenever you try to serialize the object. So to successfully serialize an object which has a reference to a non serializable object you need to make the refrence of non seriazlible object as null before Serializing OR make the reference as transient .

HTH

Thanks
Venkat.
[ June 12, 2007: Message edited by: Venkatesh Rangamani ]