posted 18 years ago
Have you read up on Serializable, ObjectInputStream, ObjectOutputStream? Those will give you good details on how it all works.
You can implement the Serializable interface to indicate an object is willing to be serialized. Once an object is serializable you can use the transient keyword to indicate a variable is not to be serialized as part of the object.
[ January 12, 2006: Message edited by: Stan James ]
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