Changed my mind about some serializer issues. Use annotations to enable

custom serializers.

.classpath

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
 		</attributes>
 	</classpathentry>
-	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
+	<classpathentry exported="true" kind="con" path="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
 		<attributes>
 			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
 		</attributes>

src/de/tudarmstadt/maki/simonstrator/api/component/overlay/Serializer.java

@@ -34,9 +34,16 @@ import de.tudarmstadt.maki.simonstrator.api.Message;
  * @author Bjoern Richerzhagen
  * 
  */
-@Deprecated
 public interface Serializer {
 
+	/**
+	 * Has to return the types that are sent via the network. Custom serializers
+	 * are provided with the @Se
+	 * 
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	public Class<?>[] getSerializableTypes();
+
 	/**
 	 * Serialize the given message using the provided output stream. For
 	 * convenience, you might of course fill the provided primitive OutputStream

src/de/tudarmstadt/maki/simonstrator/api/component/overlay/SerializerComponent.java

@@ -38,17 +38,6 @@ public interface SerializerComponent extends GlobalComponent {
 	 * @param serializer
 	 * @param port
 	 */
-	@Deprecated
 	public void addSerializer(Serializer serializer, int port);
 
-	/**
-	 * New Serialization API. Register the respective Type and (optionally)
-	 * provide a serializer implementation.
-	 * 
-	 * @param type
-	 * @param serializer
-	 */
-	public <T> void addSerializableType(Class<T> type,
-			com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Serializer<T> serializer);
-
 }