Reconstructing Object references

Question

Im attempting to serialize an object which contains other object references, and then deserialize it back into a difference instance of the same java application. How can I reconstruct the object references inside my serialized object so that they once again point to the correct objects? I dont want to use any corba apis or anything like that, there must be some java native way of doing this (finding objects ie name resolution)...
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You have to read in the serialized object and cast it to the serialized object type.
//Guid is how I am differentiating the objects
try
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(guid));
YourClass yc = (ObjectMaker)in.readObject();
if (yc.equals(null))
     System.out.println("Object Bean not found");
     return;
in.close();
frame.getContentPane().add(yc,BorderLayout.CENTER);
This restores the object back to its type.
If you are using Drag and Drop, I would suggest creating a new constructor that accepts the bean name, and reading the object from within it's class. You can then restore the models from the constructor
hope this helps,
mattrock