Of course making the inner class static would probably have done the trick, as then the inner class instances wouldn't hold a reference to an instance of the outer class.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henrique Lopes Cardoso Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:29 PM To: jess-users@sandia.gov Subject: Re: JESS: Serializing Userfunctions Just found out what the problem was. I was defining my Userfunction as an innerclass of the main class where I had the Rete instance. That main class was not Serializable, and that was the class getting the NotSerializableException. Something like this: class M { Rete jess; class F implements Userfunction, Serializable { ... } public static void main(String args[]) { ... jess.addUserfunction(new F()); ... jess.bsave(...); } } ==> Class M was getting the NotSerializableException I then defined the Userfunction class F as an independent class, implementing Serializable, and everything worked fine. Thank you. Henrique friedman_hill ernest j wrote: > I think Henrique Lopes Cardoso wrote: > >> Just stating the class to be Serializable made it work, that is, bsave() >> does not complain anymore and after bload()ing the functions work as >> expected. >> >> I then tried with a simpler example, which got me the >> NotSerializableException again... >> > > NotSerializableExceptions have the offending class name as the > exception message; what class is it complaining about? Note that Jess > can't do anything to make a serializable class non-serializable. > > >> My question is: why does this approach work only sometimes? >> > > There must be something else going on; I would double-check that all > the Userfunction class files were up to date with the source, and that > everything that's supposed to be serializable really is. > > >> Is this approach recommendable[?] >> > > Yes, definitely. Jess's "built-in" functions aren't actually special > in any way; they're just serializable Userfunctions. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Ernest Friedman-Hill > Advanced Software Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 > Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 > PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list > (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- ----- - - - - - - - - - - - - Henrique Lopes Cardoso DEEC/FEUP Rua Dr. Roberto Frias | 4200-465 Porto PORTUGAL (+351)225574199 ext.3355 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.fe.up.pt/~hlc ----- - - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
