If a class is serialized,will its innerclass gets automatically serialized?

Question

There is a Class,which is Serialized...i have declared an innerclass which has not implemented Serializable interface...will that innerclass gets serialized Or not..??'
Regs
Sudhy...

Answer 1

The answer you gave boils down to "if
an object is serializable it will be serialized,
otherwise it won't."Not at all, it boils down to 'if the object is reachable from a serialized object it will be serialized otherwise not', with the appropriate qualifications.
Your response oversimplified the
possibilities - not taking into account that if the
inner class doesn't create any objects and only
manipulates serializable fields of the outer class
then they will participate in the serialization, or
that the inner class objects will be serializable if
it's a subclass of the outer class, as examples..I don't understand any of this. Inner classes are not serialized at all[i/], it is [i]instances which may or may not be serialized, and this only depends on whether they are directly or indirectly reachable from the outer class instance, and not in the least on what the inner class does or doesn't do with fields of the outer class or whether it has field objects of its own.
I agree that an inner class which extends a serializable outer class will be serialiable, but that wasn't the question.
BTW reachability is not discussed in the article cited at all and neither is your other misconception quoted above.