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 question clearly activated a long-held antipathy for Java object serialization, which is the process of converting an object into a stream of bytes for transport and storage. Deserialization ...

But while Oracle is addressing the issue in Java, serialization also affects other programming environments like .NET, Ruby, and others, where the issue remains dormant.

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 ...

Java Serialization Bug Crops Up At PayPal Author: Michael Mimoso January 28, 2016 9:04 am 2 minute read ...

The XmlSerializer class provides a great way to convert objects to XML and back. However, it can be difficult to serialize collections such as Arrays and ArrayLists properly unless you know a few ...

Serialization is the process of converting a data object into a binary format so it can be sent over a network, stored inside a database, or saved on disk.

You can accomplish this serialization process by using special XML serialization attributes such as XmlArray and XmlArrayItem, found in the System.Xml.Serialization namespace.

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 ...