Serializing object of class implementing Singleton Pattern

hi ,

if i've a object of a singleton pattern based class and i seriailize that and when i'm desrializing that, i 'll get the object back, but on calling getInstance() method for my singleton class, it will agian call constructor because for the class's static object reference is null, i need to avoid this, for this i've written a setInstance method, which sets the Singleton class's static refernce to the object i desialized, which is fine, but it defeats the singleton pattern

can anybody suggest me some other way of achieving this...

[564 byte] By [gaurav_abbia] at [2007-11-27 0:31:25]