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Re: passing object

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Wed Oct 4 01:40:18 1995

Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 20:59:57 -0700
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: lliang@bellcore.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM


Hi Larry,

> Is there a generic way to pass objects on a stream? The stream API
> seems only support the builtin types. 

Nope. It is really hard to persistify an object and depersistify
it again on the other hand without opening a whole can of security
worms. Maybe in some future version, there is nothing in the language
that is preventing us from doing it.

Have fun,

	Arthur van Hoff
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