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 ...

During object serialization, the default Java serialization mechanism writes the metadata about the object, which includes the class name, field names and types, and superclass.

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 ...

In programming languages, serialization is the process of converting data to a binary format for storing it or for sending it over the network. Deserialization is the reverse of that process.