Need Serializable help

[trielementz]

Say I have a class:

class Request implement java.io.Serializable {
  
  // attributes
  User reqUser = new User(...);
  Location reqLoc = new Location(...);
  Priority reqPr = new Priority(...);
  Domain reqDom = new Domain (...);  

}

And a collection class of Requests:

class RequestColl {

 Vector RequestList = new Vector(); // will hold Requests

}

Questions:
1) Can i directly serialize RequestList and expect all the Requests it holds to be serialized?

2) If I serialize each Request instance on its own, must the classes it has as its attributes implement Serializable as well? Etc

class Domain implements Serializable {...}

Thanks a lot!

[ArchAngel added CODE tags]

[ArchAngel]

1) Can i directly serialize RequestList and expect all the Requests it holds to be serialized?

Pretty much (but see part 2)

2) If I serialize each Request instance on its own, must the classes it has as its attributes implement Serializable as well? Etc

Whenever Java tries to serialize a Request object, whether in the process of serializing an entire List or a single instance, it will need for those classes used to be declared Serializable.

Just try to serialize it and find out!

[trielementz]

thanks for your help! Reason I asked was because i didn't seem to be able to serialize that collection class

o yes, thanks for tidying up after me