Homemade vs. Java Serialization

Question

I have a certain POJO which needs to be persisted on a database, current design specifies its field as a single string column, and adding additional fields to the table is not a

Answer 1

XStream or YAML or OGNL come to mind as easy serialization techniques. XML has been the most common, but OGNL provides the most flexibility with the least amount of metadata.