Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: De-serializing an object with missing child classes Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:59:24 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <774ae53e-c127-4d79-8267-d8c8197d0dfb@z7g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7633 On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:15:27 -0700 (PDT), "raphfrk@gmail.com" wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >At a later time, I want to deserialize the object, but one of the >stored classes is no longer available. Is there a way to deserialize >the object, but have that entry in the array be null? Does not RMI automatically ensure everyone has the classes needed? see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/rmi.html -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)