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I am currently trying to provide a generic class that will establish an
UDP/IP Broadcast connection and broadcast datagrams.

The UDP/IP stuff is fine. However, I would like to be able to take a
java.lang.Object ( or an instance of a class that is inherited from it ) and
convert it into bytes in an automatic manner.

I've tried to use streams, creating my own UDPBroadcastInput and Output
streams, but when I use the ObjectInputStream stream reader and writer the
app complains about the stream being corrupt when it tries to read from it.
I believe this is due to the version number being passed out from the
ObjectInputStream  and ObjectOutputStream . Does anyone know of any way to
get round this. Alternatively is there a way of accessing serialization
without using these classes so that I can manipulate the stream of bytes
directly.

I could always try to assign the object to an array of bytes as I would in
C, however I would need to know the size of the java.lang.Object and its
descendants. Is there a way of finding out ???


Any help would be very much appreciated

Cheers