NotSerializableException

[Ravi Kumar]

Hi,
I am new to java.io package.
I am trying to persist the java.lang.Process object into file system by using ObjectOutputStream.While executing this statement ois.writeObject(java.lang.Process) i am getting this exception.

java.io.NotSerializableException: java.lang.ProcessImpl
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1075)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:291)
at com.ms.rfid.kernel.RmiServerAgent.startRfidServer(RmiServerAgent.java:128)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:294)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:153)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:149)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:460)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:701)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Can anybody help to solve this problem please.......

this is the sample code
{
spawnedProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmdArray, null, null);
fos = new FileOutputStream("process.pro");
oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
oos.writeObject(remoteProcess);
}

Regards,
Ravi

[Joe Ess]

For ObjectOutputStream to process a class, it must implement java.io.Serializable. See the API documentation for ObjectOutputStream and Serializable for more details.

[Ravi Kumar]

Hi,

Thanks for your s response. How can i serialize java.lang.Process object.
Please help me out on this.

[Ulf Dittmer]

How can i serialize java.lang.Process object.

You can't. A Process object is applicable only to the machine where it's running (it's similar to a File object in that regard), so it can't be serialized (which would enable the serialized representation to be used elsewhere).

[Nitesh Kant]

How can i serialize java.lang.Process object.

Why do you need to persist a process?
It does not make sense to persist a process as it is just an execution of a command, you can not freeze the state of a process and re-run at a different time. So, what is the reason for trying to do the same?

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

Process is a java class and if this doesnot implement java.io.Serializable interface then you cannot serialize it.

You are free to decide which classes written by you need to be serialized.