The serialization mechanism demonstrated in this post was easy to implement on the writer and reader sides because I used standard Java classes that are inherently Serializable and their ...

Announced last year, the project is being led by Oracle's rockstar Java architect Brian Goetz. He discusses his ideas around "the possible direction of data classes in a blog post. Apostolos ...

The Serializable interface is a marker interface; it declares no methods at all. It tells the serialization mechanism that the class can be serialized.

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 Serialization API provides a standard mechanism for developers to handle object serialization. In this tip, you will see how to serialize an object, and why serialization is sometimes ...

When you serialize an object, class meta information is serialized along with the object's state. One of the pieces of metadata that is written is the class's serial version.

Java Deserialization Flaw Patched in 19 Products Among the most noteworthy aspects of the April CPU is the CVE-2016-1000031 Java flaw that is being patched across 19 Oracle products.