Why volatile variable can't be serialized?

[subbu]

Why volatile variable can't be serialized?

[Paul Sturrock]

"jkith"

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[Steve Fahlbusch]

jkith,

For you, why would one serialize a variable?

and,

Again for you, why would one specify a veriable as volitile?

[Bear Bibeault]

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[subbu]

In multithreaded environment to maintain the unique value of a particular field, we are using volatile.

Any reason why it can't be serialised.

If a particular memeber(field) declared as transient it will not be included while doing the serialization.

[Paul Sturrock]

"subbu"

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[Peter Chase]

As far as I know, and I have just skim-read the "volatile" section of the language spec and the introduction to the Serialisation spec, the "volatile" keyword has no effect on serialisation.

The "volatile" keyword, as you say, is about maintaining a consistent view of the field between threads. It is "transient" that controls serialisation. I could find no evidence of any link between the two keywords.

Did you actually try to serialise your volatile field? I would expect it to succeed.

Note that you can serialise even transient fields. It's only the *default* serialisation mechanism that does not serialise them. If you provide custom serialisation, which ain't too hard, you can put anything you like in the serialisation stream.

[Srinivas Kalvala]

Hello,

Its a way to maintain the resources held by runtime objects.

Assume, you are using one file stream to read data in an object which you want to serialize.
Will it work after deserialization on other machine?. may or may not.

So all network,file,i/o,DB resources variables mainly used as transient variables, so that they will be reset to the runtime environemnt in which the object is deserialized.

Note: ofcourse to relase the resources too ...

More inputs are welcome.