Need of serialization in Java [closed]

Answer 1

When you want to save an object's state into a file or send it over the network, you need to transform it into a series of bytes. This is called serialization.

Java has a built-in mechanism for that, other options include XML or JSON.

Examples when you need this: Caching objects, making remote method calls, saving an object graph to disk.

Answer 2

• If you want to store an object (-structure) on disk you'll need serialization.
• A webservice requires serialization of objects to xml before they can be transmitted.

Answer 3

Serialization is needed when there is a problem in sending data from one class to another. Where the other class is on a different location or Hard Disk. i.e. in Distributed Systems

The reverse operation of serialisation is called deserialization

The String Class and all wrapper classes implement serializable interface by default

Serializable interface is also marker interface which provides the capability of Serialization to your class. So, we should implement a serializable interface if we want to send the state of an object over the network