From: Levi Purvis <javanet_at_purvis.ws>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:59:54 -0400

> If you have, say, readObject in the base class, does this method invoked
> when you are processing derived types?

No. But you can get that behavior by implementing Externalizable
instead of Serializable. So it can work both ways.