I need to figure out a way to convert a user defined type to a byte array and be able to reconstruct that type from the byte array. So far, what I came up with was to convert each variable in the ...

```java // Java Program to eliminate duplicate user defined // objects as a key from Java LinkedHashMap import java.util.*; class Employee { private String name; private int id; // Constructor public ...

However, the Java Platform provides a data structure that greatly simplifies the use of reference objects like this, called the java.util.WeakHashMap class. WeakHashMap works exactly like a hash ...