I am having problems deserializing JDK 1.0.2 AWT components. How can I make this work?
When you serialize AWT widgets, also serialized are the Peer objects that map the AWT functions to the local window system. When you deserialize (reconsitute) the AWT widgets, the old Peers are re-created, but they are out of date. Peers are native to the local window system and contain pointers to data structures in the local address space, and therefore cannnot be moved. As a work-around, you should first remove the top-level widget from its container (so the widgets are no longer “live”). The peers are discarded at this point and you will save only the AWT widget state. When you later deserialize and read the widgets back in, add the top level widget to the frame to make the AWT widgets appear.
