Does Eclipse have an editor/viewer for java serialized files?

Question

I\'m serializing my objects with ObjectOutputStream(FileOutputStream(File)) and deserializing them with the analogous InputStreams. Is there a way to l

Answer 1

While this isn't a full fledged editor, Eamonn McManus has written a transcoder which deciphers a serialized blob into a human readable form. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2007/06/12/disassembling-serialized-java-objects

If binary compatibility and performance are considerations, this would be a good time to look into Externalizable instead of Serializable.