TextLayout not Serializable AND final class - can't extend and save objects

Question

As the title reads, I am using a TextLayout object in a class called Foo.
I want to be able to serialize Foo and save it to the HD. This can't be done because TextLayout does not implement Serializable.
So I tried to create a new class that extended the TextLayout class. This wasn't possible because TextLayout is defined as:
public final class TextLayout
extends Object
implements Cloneable
Basically, I have no clue how to be able to save my Foo class to the HD since I can't serialize the TextLayout object inside the Foo class. I would really appreciate help, because it is quite important that this works.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Siniz wrote:
I have never dabbled with with transient variables, but I just read up on it and understand what you are getting at. Is this really the only way?
The reason why I need to use TextLayout is because I need the bounding box of the text. I see no other way to get a bounding box around text than using TextLayout.That's a question for the swing/awt forums.
I am also not entirely sure what you mean when you say I should write my own writeObject and readObject methods? You are saying I should entirely ditch the ObjectOutputStream methods?No, you implement those methods on your class in order to customize serialization. Please see the javadocs on the Serializable interface.