>Greg, I know you don't like creating private methods, but that readObject >method is 574 lines long really hard to read and follow. Is there any >chance we can break it down in to something more manageable, please?
I actually don't have any specific opposition to private methods. I'm just not sure that there is a clean way to break that method up. I've revised that class a number of times already, and I think it's currently pretty clean. It just does a lot. :-)
