[picocontainer-dev] Constructor Injection and Serialization Patterns

Hi All,

 

Pico was my first initiation into constructor injection and I've been an avid
fan after finding it.  However, I'm lacking a solution to a problem that I keep
encountering.

 

Given the sample class:

 

public class Sample implements Serializable {

      private ClassLoader cl;

 

      public Sample(ClassLoader classLoader) {

            cl = classLoader;

      }

}

 

The problem that I have is that since ClassLoader is not serializable, neither
is Sample.  If I make the classloader transient, then I deserialize a useless
object.

 

So far, the only solution I can see is to downgrade to setter injection.
(yuck!).

 

Has anybody come up with some sort of externalization pattern that they use in
practice that I can add to the "Best Practices" section for the Pico Docs?
Anything, especially in mind of usage in XStream, would be great :D

 

Thanks in advance!

                                                            -Mike