Serialization is the process of saving an object's state to a sequence of bytes; deserialization is the process of rebuilding those bytes into a live object. The Java Serialization API provides a ...

The Java SE 6 documentation on Object Serialization states the following about the uses of Java serialization: Serialization is used for lightweight persistence and for communication via sockets ...

Serialization Serialization in java is a mechanism of writing the state of an object into a byte stream. It is mainly used in Hibernate, RMI, JPA, EJB and JMS technologies. The reverse operation of ...

Last month, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, said during a conference Q&A that one of Oracle's long-term goals is to change the way Java handles object serialization. In fact, he called the ...

The Java object serialization is designed generic method to handle all possible objects, and it performs a considerable amount of interpretation in determining the properties of objects before taking ...

Status The full Java Object Serialization specification isn't covered, and the API surface isn't stable, but it is usable for parsing real data.