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 or ...

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 ...

In the world of high-level programming languages, developers constantly deal with ** [object/struct]** types of highly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reinhold says the Java team is currently working on dropping serialization support for good from the language's main body, but still provide developers with a plug-in system to support serialization ...

If you've ever used serialization in Java, the first thing you probably noticed is how easy it is to code. The second thing you probably noticed is how easy it is to break serialization by changing ...

PayPal has fixed a serious vulnerability in its back-end management system that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server and potentially install a backdoor. The ...