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

Consider changing your schema. Even if you find a quick way to serialize a POJO to a string how do you handle different versions? How do you migrate the database from X->Y? Or worse from A->D? I am seeing issues where we stored a serialize object into a BLOB field and have to migrate a customer across multiple versions.