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 ...

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 ...

Abstract: The Java object serialization is designed generic method to handle all possible objects, and it performs a considerable amount of interpretation in determining the properties of objects ...

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 ...

Abstract: J2ME mobile agents developers are very soon confronted with the problem of objects transfer over the communication flows (streams) provided by J2ME which, by themselves, take into account ...

is the process of converting a Java object into a stream of bytes so that it can be stored (e.g., in a file or database) or transmitted (e.g., over a network). This allows complex data structures, ...

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 ago ...