I would put the first element to a different field, make periods field
transient and implement a readResolve method that calls a constructor.
So, something like this should solve your problem easily, right?
private final String name
private final Duration duration
private final PeriodField fir
I thought I'd raise an issue with serialization that I've had a problem
with more than once. Perhaps there is an obvious easy solution, but I
can't see it (I can see hard workarounds...)
In JSR-310 we have lots of immutable classes. One of these stores four
fields:
private final String name
