Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition [Electronic resources]

Signals that the serialization mechanism has encountered one of several possible problems with the class of an object that is being serialized or deserialized. The classname field should contain the name of the class in question, and the getMessage( ) method is overridden to return this class name with the message.

public class 
InvalidClassException  extends ObjectStreamException {
// Public Constructors
public 
InvalidClassException (String 
reason );  
public 
InvalidClassException (String 
cname , String 
reason );  
// Public Methods Overriding Throwable
public String 
getMessage ( );  
// Public Instance Fields
public String 
classname ;  
}