What is object serialization?

Question

What is meant by \"object serialization\"? Can you please explain it with some examples?

Answer 1

Return the file as an Object : http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_serialization.htm

        import java.io.*;

        public class SerializeDemo
        {
           public static void main(String [] args)
           {
              Employee e = new Employee();
              e.name = "Reyan Ali";
              e.address = "Phokka Kuan, Ambehta Peer";
              e.SSN = 11122333;
              e.number = 101;

              try
              {
                 FileOutputStream fileOut =
                 new FileOutputStream("/tmp/employee.ser");
                 ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(fileOut);
                 out.writeObject(e);
                 out.close();
                 fileOut.close();
                 System.out.printf("Serialized data is saved in /tmp/employee.ser");
              }catch(IOException i)
              {
                  i.printStackTrace();
              }
           }
        }

    import java.io.*;
    public class DeserializeDemo
    {
       public static void main(String [] args)
       {
          Employee e = null;
          try
          {
             FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream("/tmp/employee.ser");
             ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(fileIn);
             e = (Employee) in.readObject();
             in.close();
             fileIn.close();
          }catch(IOException i)
          {
             i.printStackTrace();
             return;
          }catch(ClassNotFoundException c)
          {
             System.out.println("Employee class not found");
             c.printStackTrace();
             return;
          }
          System.out.println("Deserialized Employee...");
          System.out.println("Name: " + e.name);
          System.out.println("Address: " + e.address);
          System.out.println("SSN: " + e.SSN);
          System.out.println("Number: " + e.number);
        }
    }