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As mentioned on nbui, it would be nice to have support for the JavaBeans archiver in JDK 1.4. I have a working prototype in contrib/archiver; download: http://contrib.netbeans.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList?action=download&dlID=312 - recognizes *.xml files created by the archiver - gives them InstanceCookie - select any .java, .ser, .class, or archiver .xml file and choose Tools -> Customize Archived Bean, customize it, save as XML Should be merged into regular Customize Bean action, as suggested on nbui. Also, the Beans template category should include a template for a PersistenceDelegate. And the BeanInfo generator should provide a GUI for setting a persistence delegate for a bean class. More background: http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence4/index.html