Received: by 10.66.85.166 with SMTP id i6mr5631898paz.13.1351189096418; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:18:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.253.202 with SMTP id ac10mr2092818pbd.7.1351189096402; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:18:16 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!kr7no10734651pbb.0!news-out.google.com!6ni26596pbd.1!nntp.google.com!kr7no10734650pbb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:18:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: serialize spoilers From: Lew Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:18:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19502 bob smith wrote: > What do you typically do when you want to serialize an object that doesn't naturally implement Serializable? Nothing without first reading the section of /Effective Java/ by Joshua Bloch that tells you how to deal with serialization. http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/java/9780137150021 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ft8t0S4VjmwC&pg=PA289&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4 You need to buy the book to get every page, but that's all right because you need to buy the book. Suffice to say that there are mechanisms to deal with your situation, but you aren't going to learn the fundamentals of serialization by asking random questions on Usenet. -- Lew