Hello, I am experiencing a new serialization exception. I am not sure if it something subtle that I might have changed in the code or if it is due to a new jdk version, but here it is:

I am trying to save the components of my GUI to the hard disk and I want to make new cloned versions of these components.

To clone, I am using the 'deep copy' example of doubling an object:

			

			static public Object deepCopy(Object oldObj) throws Exception
			

			{
			

			ObjectOutputStream oos = null;
			

			ObjectInputStream ois = null;
			

			try
			

			{
			

			ByteArrayOutputStream bos =
			

			new ByteArrayOutputStream(); // A
			

			oos = new ObjectOutputStream(bos); // B
			

			// serialize and pass the object
			

			oos.writeObject(oldObj);   // C
			

			oos.flush();               // D
			

			ByteArrayInputStream bin =
			

			new ByteArrayInputStream(bos.toByteArray()); // E
			

			ois = new ObjectInputStream(bin);                  // F
			

			// return the new object
			

			return ois.readObject(); // G
			

			}
			

			catch(Exception e)
			

			{
			

			System.out.println("Exception in ObjectCloner = " + e);
			

			throw(e);
			

			}
			

		

So when I try to perform this method on a few objects (java.awt.CheckboxGroup, java.awt.Choice

java.awt.List), it gives me an exception about a class that I don't really know where and what it is:

java.io.NotSerializableException: java.awt.TexturePaint

All of the components that I tried to do deepcopy do implement 'Serializeable' Interface so. I don't understand what this exception means.

I would appreciate any comments or suggestions, thanks

Ivan