I have a Runnable object I want to serialize while it is being used in a live thread. I want to be able to deserialize it later and place it in a new thread and get it running again. Is this possible?

I do understand that you cannot restart a dead thread, but I thought it might be possible to place an old runnable in a new thread and make it run. However, it doesn't seem to want to run when I deserialize it, though I get no exceptions.

			

			ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(
			

			new FileOutputStream("filename.file"));
			

			oos.writeObject(myRunnable);
			

			oos.close();
			

			

			// Then, later read back the object and put it in a new thread
			

			

			ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(
			

			new FileInputStream("filename.file"));
			

			myRunnable = (RunnableClass)ois.readObject();
			

			Thread t = new Thread(myRunnable);
			

			t.start();
			

			ois.close();