Java object serialization can be an effective tool for straightforward lightweight persistence when both the application/service saving the data and the applications/services reading the data are ...

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 ...

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. For example, say you have a “Person” class in Java that contains fields containing an ...

This is a huge decision considering that object serialization in Java is two decades old. It was first introduced to the Java platform in version 1.1 and is tightly coupled to hundreds of ...

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 ...

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 ...