Java partial (de)serialization of objects

Question

Let\'s say we have 3 Classes:

class foo { // not a singleton
    String s;
}
class bar {
    foo f;
    int i;
}
class baz {
    foo sameF;
}

Answer 1

You can make foo transient as below.

class bar {
    transient foo f;
    int i;
}