constructor loading it's object from a file

From: Murat Tasan (tasan_at_eecs.cwru.edu)
Date: 12/04/03 

Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:03:35 -0500

i'd like to have a constructor that loads an object from disk and returns
it... kinda like:

class MyClass
{
        MyClass(File f)
        {
                ObjectInputStream s = new ObjectInputStream(new
FileInputStream(f));
                this = (MyClass)s.readObject();
        }
}

now i know you cannot do this because this in the constructor is a final
variable...

is there trick that i don't know of that can do this?

p.s., before i get the typical responses... i already am using a static
factory method to accomplish the same thing... i'm just looking to make it
even easier to use my classes.

thanks for any help,

murat 

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