[Biojava-l] Serialization of SimpleSequences

[Vasa Curcin]

Hello,

While transferring some sequences via serialization, I noticed that all 
my Features are getting lost. After some digging around, it seems as if 
Java doesn't serialize the FeatureHolder inside the sequence (I was 
working with SimpleSequence objects). Even though a 
NotSerializableException is not thrown, the FeatureHolder is missing. 
After making the FeatureHolder interface in Biojava extend Serializable, 
the problem disappeared. How much will this change affect the rest of 
the code - ie. is there a good reason why FeatureHolders are not 
serializable?

Cheers,
Vasa