Showing posts with label externalizable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label externalizable. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

What’s the deal with serialization?

Today we’re going to talk about a basic, (but from time to time useful) feature of Java — serialization.
Let’s start with theory. So what is serialization?
To serialize an object means to convert its state to a byte stream so that the byte stream can be reverted back into a copy of the object