Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
All the standard implementations of collections implement Serializable - ArrayList, LinkedList, HashSet, TreeSet, HashMap, TreeMap, and asssorted others.
But if you look at the "Serialized Form" of any of these classes in javadoc, you'll see that none of them serialize the data elements. Most of them only serialize the size of the collection - which is pretty much useless without the data elements.
[ March 04, 2003: Message edited by: Bhupinder Dhillon ]