While Java’s built-in serialization mechanism is powerful, it may not always be the most efficient option. Consider exploring libraries such as Kryo, Protocol Buffers or Jackson for more ...

All of the details I demonstrated and explained in this blog posting related to Enums being inherently Serializable are concisely described in two paragraphs of Section 1.12 (“Serialization of ...

The Java serialization tutorial. In this Java serialization example, we will use both the ObjectOutputStream and the ObjectInputStream to save and retrieve the state of a simple JavaBean. The POJO ...

A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development ...

Finally, even if serialization support is dropped in a future release of Java, organizations may still have cause for concern as deserialization vulnerabilities are not unique to the JVM.

Oracle's chief architect says his company intends to remove serialization from Java -- eventually. Answering a question during a live-streamed session at the recent Devoxx UK 2018 conference called ...

The Java Serialization API provides a standard mechanism for developers to handle object serialization. For example, say you have a “Person” class in Java that contains fields containing an ...