Learn about serialization in Java with our comprehensive tutorial. We provide examples to help you understand how serialization works.

Serialization is used for lightweight persistence and for communication via sockets or Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI).

Serialization is no exception to this rule, and attacks against serialization schemes are innumerable. Unfortunately, developers enticed by the efficiency and ease of reflection-based and native ...

Researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in the Java Reflection API that can be exploited by a decade-old attack.

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 ...

Proposal would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final flelds, preparing for a future Java release that disallows mutation of final fields by default.