object Test {

  import java.io._
  
  trait IMyMessage extends Serializable {
    @transient var message:String = null
  }
  
  class MyMessage extends IMyMessage
 
  def serialize = {
    val buf = new ByteArrayOutputStream(10000)
    val out = new ObjectOutputStream(buf)
    val m = new MyMessage
    m.message = "foo"
    out.writeObject(m)
    out.flush
    buf.toByteArray
  }
   
  def unserialize(buf:Array[Byte]) = {
    val in = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(buf))
    in.readObject.asInstanceOf[MyMessage]
  }
   
  def run = {
    val m = unserialize(serialize)
    m.message
  }
}