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 or ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...