Serializing swing/awt components

Question

I am trying to serialize a JPanel but everytime i get this error:

java.io.WriteAbortedException: writing aborted; java.io.NotSerializableException: javax.swing         


        

Answer 1

GroupLayout, which appears to have been added to the panel, is not serialisable. There are a few options (listed least to most favourable).

• Subclass GroupLayout to create a serial proxy (see Effective Java 2nd Ed). This is a fair bit of work, and is complicated by GroupLayout not having a complete set of "getters and setters".

• Replace GroupLayout with a serialisable LayoutManager. There's the functional but rough GridBagLayout in the Java library. Other layout managers are available.

• Don't serialise the JPanel. Making AWT components serialisable (and the whole JavaBeans thing) was a laughable mistake.