Determining calling object in a method

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From: Lars Roe
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:00

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Hello,

I noticed that ObjectOutputStream has a method
writeDefaultObject() which knows the object that called it.
How can it know without being passed a reference?
Is this an exceptional case?
Can I make a method which can do this?

tia,
lars

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