Serialising the state of xstream so you can have the same mode of deserialisation at a separate point in time may be important for many applications. This is currently not possible (javaClassConverter is the cause i think).


import com.thoughtworks.xstream.*;

import junit.framework.*;

public class XStreamTesting extends TestCase{

/**
*
*/
public XStreamTesting() {
super("");
}

public void testXStreamSelf(){

XStream stream = new XStream();

stream.setMode(XStream.XPATH_REFERENCES);

System.out.println(stream.toXML(stream));


XStream newStream = (XStream)stream.fromXML(stream.toXML(stream));
}

}