[jdom-interest] How about Namespace serialization

[Bill Woodward]

Elliotte Rusty Harold said:
> At 2:29 PM -0800 3/27/03, Jason Hunter wrote:
>
>>As we just noticed, the additional namespaces in the JDOM element
>>are transient. This is bad.
>

This reminded me to ask about a different serialization problem.  Is there
any reason that the Namespace class itself is not serializable?  I have a
class that I need to serialize.  It uses JDOM internally, storing a
Document, root Element, and Namespace as private variables.  However, I
get a serialization error when I try to send it over RMI because it the
Namespace class is not declared serializable.

I get around the problem by declaring the private Namespace variable as
transient, but it seems odd that I can serialize everything else, but not
the Namespace.

No, should Namespace implement serializable?

- Bill

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