I feel your pain with java serialization. The fact that you cant serialize exceptions to notify systems connected to a JVM that something blew up is just insan

I feel your pain with java serialization. The fact that you cant serialize exceptions to notify systems connected to a JVM that something blew up is just insane. All objects should be able to be serialized (in binary) from one system to another as long as JVM versions and class libraries match... end of story.