RE: Beginner java question: Serializable

Definitely not. First of all, you should know that
serialization is not the only way to handle things
like persistence or remote processing, nor am I saying
it's the best way either. Your original question
was... "what is it used for?"... so  I mentioned a
couple of reasons why it is used. And if you do decide
to use serialization, you definitely should NOT make
every bean or class in your app serializable. Only
those for which you have a valid reason to do so. 

Ivan

--- Lim Hock-Chai <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> is that true in all cases?  is there any down fall
> to always implement it?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Ashish Kulkarni
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:42 AM
> To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries /
> AS400
> Subject: Re: Beginner java question: Serializable
> 
> 
> You should implement Serializable if you want to
> create a java bean, 
> Ashish
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