XStream: Cannot create java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport by JDK serialization

Problem

When attempting to serialize a bean, which uses property change support, XStream throws the following exepection.

message : Cannot create java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport by JDK serialization : null cause-exception : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ObjectAccessException

Solution

The only solution I found was to ignore the field pointing to the PropertyChangeSupport class in the class, which is to be serialized by adding „transient“.

private transient PropertyChangeSupport propertySupport;