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

To serialize an object, all the objects it references need to also be serializable aswell. You can mark a reference transient if you don't want it to be serialized. This means, if your panel refers to objects which are not serilizable, make them serilizable aswell or mark them transient