Serialization

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Hi !

I am trying to import object serialization classes from Classpath to 
kaffe. I managed
to make them work together but I found some behaviour inconsistencies. 
For example,
I do not understand the method 
java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getSerialPersistentFields:
apparently the official documentation says we must use the field 
serialPersistentFields
to explicitly describe the fields to be exported, however you seem to use
"getSerialPersistentFields" instead. Besides you suppress the check for 
the availability
of the field although it is quite sure it will not be there (I did not 
find it in the all source
code of classpath): this causes some huge NullPointerException problems.
The only solution is to change the name "getSerialPersistentFields" into 
"serialPersistentFields"
but I do not see the point to complicate things... :( (if someone can 
explain it to me)

For the moment, there are still some problems with kaffe's regression 
tests and trying to
reduce them...

Cheers,
Guilhem.