marker/annotation to ignore methods during compilation

Is there any way to tell the gwt compiler to ignore certain methods
and not complain about missing client code? I want the gwt compiler
to ignore certain flagged methods entirely and not include them in the
javascript compilation.

Why do I want to do this? My system uses Java serialization to
persist client objects on the server. Now I need to customize the
serialization process with readObject & writeObject methods and the
gwt compiler complains about ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream
not being found in the client code.

The readObject and writeObject methods are never used when executing
in a client browser, only during serialization on the server to
persist the objects.

As an alternative, I know I can create server-side wrapper classes
that can do the serialization but that then requires me to expose a
bunch of my client object internals solely for the purpose of
serialization, which I don't like because it 1) is a lot of work and
2) breaks my encapsulation.

Thanks for any tips,
Peter

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