The boost serialization library does not require a default constructor. Look at serialization of pointers in the documentation under save_construct/load construct. Its all in there. One of the tests is test_no_default constructor or something like that. All you have to do is read the documentation. Robert Ramey "Robert Dailey" <rcdailey@gmail.com> wrote in message news:496954360901260830ud93cf5ale436e3d1aea28d4b@mail.gmail.com... Hi, What would be a good technique to deserialize an object without using 2-phase initialization? In other words, I want to avoid first default constructing the object and *then* streaming it out of the archive object. I was thinking of a factory for this but a good code example would help a great deal since I'm not extremely familiar with Boost.Serialization. I was looking through the Boost.Serialization documentation but I was unable to find information on this. Help is greatly appreciated! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users