[starksm64]

"alesj" wrote:

Ok, for MetaData there is no problem.
What do we do with JavaBeans (which now fail - since with wildcard test's we use plain java.lang.Object)?

Just change the test to use something like the following class:

package org.jboss.test.....;

import java.io.Serializable;

public class SerializableObject implements Serializable
{
 private static final long serialVersionUID = -1L;
}

We do have the ability to serialize non-Serializable objects, and this notion should be coming in as an annotation/external metadata passed to the serialization layer rather than a tagging interface that has to be seen in the type system in my view. Exposing Serializable in the mc apis is too onerous a contract.