Is there any way to save the state of an object of a class which does not implement Serializable or Extenalizable?.

Created Oct 3, 2000

swarraj kulkarni

Yes. You will have to write the value of each and every instance variable into the persistent storage. If there are 100 variables, you will have to store each of them individually. If some of the variables are object references, you will have to follow each reference and save the state of that object as well. You can do that, but it would be a proprietary solution and each class that wanted to read your object would also have to know all about your proprietary format.