Shortly after my last response I did some more trial/error searching through the boost serialization documentation and I think I might have found what I&#39;m looking for. Unfortunately I cannot post a URL because this particular area of the boost documentation is using HTML frames. I found it under:<br>
<br>Reference &gt;&gt; Serializable Concept &gt;&gt; Pointers<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Robert Dailey <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rcdailey@gmail.com">rcdailey@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thanks for your response Robert.<br><br>I figured it was in the documentation. I&#39;m still unable to find it. I realize all I have to do is read the documentation but I don&#39;t want to read the *whole* thing. The boost documentation has been notorious for being difficult to navigate. I cannot find this information anywhere and there&#39;s no &quot;search&quot; feature.<br>

<br>Could you provide me a URL since you seem to know where this information is located?<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Robert Ramey <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ramey@rrsd.com" target="_blank">ramey@rrsd.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The boost serialization library does not require a 
default constructor.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Look at serialization of pointers in the 
documentation under save_construct/load construct.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Its all in there.&nbsp;</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">One of the tests is test_no_default constructor or 
something like that.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">All you have to do is read the 
documentation.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Robert Ramey</font></div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">
  <div>&quot;Robert Dailey&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:rcdailey@gmail.com" target="_blank">rcdailey@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote in message 
  <a href="news:496954360901260830ud93cf5ale436e3d1aea28d4b@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">news:496954360901260830ud93cf5ale436e3d1aea28d4b@mail.gmail.com</a>...</div><div>Hi,<br><br>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&#39;m not 
  extremely familiar with Boost.Serialization. I was looking through the 
  Boost.Serialization documentation but I was unable to find information on 
  this.<br><br>Help is greatly appreciated!<br>
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