Is there a built-in method - or can someone point me to a good pattern - for determining whether an object that implements Serializable is actually serializable at construction time? I need something that doesn't have side effects, so I can't just call the methods in my application server that actually serialize the objects.
I'd prefer something that I can take advantage of in the constructor without changing the constructor signature. However, I don't mind building a factory for these objects if that would make it easier.
EDIT
According to this question's accepted answer it looks like I can just create my own ObjectOutputStream -> ObjectInputStream pipe to test serializability of objects at creation time.