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De-serialization

There is something of a mystery about the provided features in Sun's BeanBox. There is a feature, named Serialize bean , that allows the user to dump a bean's state to a file. There isn't, however, any way to read back in the bean's state from the saved file (to de-serialize a bean). It is interesting that many more complicated features were implemented (e.g., making an applet from the BeanBox), but not this simple one. We have added this capability.