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 ...

Java’s Serializable interface provides an easy-to-use programming interface for converting between a runtime object and a byte stream. Serialization involves mapping a runtime object or an object ...

Q: Does setting the serialVersionUID class field improve Java serialization performance? A: I have heard this performance “tip” from several colleagues and keep running across it in various Java ...