The serialization mechanism demonstrated in this post was easy to implement on the writer and reader sides because I used standard Java classes that are inherently Serializable and their ...

The Serializable interface is a marker interface; it declares no methods at all. It tells the serialization mechanism that the class can be serialized.

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 ...

PayPal has rewarded two researchers with bug bounties for the discovery of a Java serialization vulnerability in manager.paypal.com A Java serialization vulnerability disclosed more than a year ...

For example, an attacker could craft a serialized object that includes a Java class that the application accepts and which could be abused for something malicious.