diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/Term.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/Term.java
index 2ec6592e72e..a38c129560f 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/Term.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/Term.java
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ package org.apache.lucene.index;
   Note that terms may represent more than words from text fields, but also
   things like dates, email addresses, urls, etc.  */
 
-public final class Term {
+public final class Term implements java.io.Serializable {
   String field;
   String text;
   
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.java
index 3bf6ba37422..3d79d5bcf85 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.java
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
   <li><a href="doc/lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.html">QueryParser</a>
   </ul>
   */
-abstract public class Query {
+abstract public class Query implements java.io.Serializable {
 
   // query boost factor
   protected float boost = 1.0f;