XStream should be able to work with classes that are hot-redeployed

Stephane Nicoll wrote:

>Hello list,
>
>We use xstream in Jboss to serialize our messages to XML and post them to JMS
>queues. It works fine (great job) but when we hot redeploy serializable
>classes we have the following exception:
>
>11:10:08,587 ERROR [ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor]
>TransactionRolledbackLocalException in method: public abstract void
>javax.jms.MessageListener.onMessage(javax.jms.Message), causedBy:
>com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ObjectAccessException: Could
>not get field class java.lang.reflect.Field.codAmount: null
> at
>com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.PureJavaReflectionProvider.vis
>itSerializableFields(Unknown Source)
> at
>com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ReflectionConverter.marshal(Un
>known Source)
> at
>com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.ReferenceByXPathMarshaller.convertAnother(Unkno
>wn Source)
> at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeMarshaller.start(Unknown Source)
> at
>com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.ReferenceByXPathMarshallingStrategy.marshal(Unk
>nown Source)
> at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.marshal(Unknown Source)
> at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.toXML(Unknown Source)
>
>To be clear, Xstream is not hot redeployed but the Objects to serialize are.
>Restarting Jboss solves the issue but this is quite annoying.
>
>We're using SUN JDK 1.4.2
>
>Thanks,
>
>Stéphane
>