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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 07:57:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Paulex Yang (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-184) java.util.TimeZone's default
 implementation may cause many classes' serialization non-compatible with RI
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java.util.TimeZone's default implementation may cause many classes' serialization non-compatible with RI
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         Key: HARMONY-184
         URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-184
     Project: Harmony
        Type: Bug
  Components: Classlib  
    Reporter: Paulex Yang
    Priority: Critical


Static factory methods, java.util.TimeZone.getInstance(String) and getDefault(), are only ways to get a TimeZone instance, but Harmony and RI uses different classes as default implementation, which cause serialization non-compatible. Further, all classes whose serialization form includes TimeZone won't compatible with RI, too, for example, java.util.Calendar(with subclass), java.text.DateFormat(with subclass), etc.

But the incompatiblity is hard to be imputed to Harmony, because Harmony use API class SimpleTimeZone as default implementation, but RI use a non-API class,  whose full name is sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo.

The reproduce procedure:
1. To serialize TimeZone object to a file in RI, run codes below in RI
public void writeObject(){
		TimeZone zone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT");
		ObjectOutputStream ooutput = null;
		try {
			ooutput = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("TimeZone.ser"));
			ooutput.writeObject(zone);
		} finally {
			try {
				if (null != ooutput) {
					ooutput.close();
				}
			} catch (Exception e) {
			}
		}
}

2. Trying to deserialize this object from file, run codes below
public void readObject(){
		ObjectInputStream oinput = null;
		try {
			oinput = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("TimeZone.ser"));
			TimeZone newObj = (TimeZone)oinput.readObject();
		} finally {
			try {
				if (null != oinput) {
					oinput.close();
				}
			} catch (Exception e) {
			}
		}
}

Run in RI, passes without any failure
Run in Harmony, exception throwed as below:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:154)
	at java.io.ObjectInputStream.resolveClass(ObjectInputStream.java:2226)
... ...

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