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Re: Serialization

Posted by Brian Sanders on November 26, 2001 at 5:32 PM

The default behavior of ObjectOutputStream is to write each Object only once, no matter how many times it is written to the stream. On subsequent calls to writeObject(), only a reference to the first Object is written.

To override this behavior, call the reset() method after each time you call writeObject().