Native Python objects, like instances of classes, cannot be directly shared through APIs or external systems without serialization. Without a structured serialization process, inconsistencies arise ...

To serialize an object, first create the object that is to be serialized and set its public properties and fields. To do this, you must determine the transport format in which the XML stream is to be ...

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 ...

Abstract: The Java object serialization is designed generic method to handle all possible objects, and it performs a considerable amount of interpretation in determining the properties of objects ...

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 ...

Abstract: J2ME mobile agents developers are very soon confronted with the problem of objects transfer over the communication flows (streams) provided by J2ME which, by themselves, take into account ...

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 ...