Chapter 12. Serializing Objects
In this chapter, you'll see how you can transfer objects to and from a stream. By the end of this chapter you will have learned:
What serialization is and how you make a class serializable
How to write objects to a file
What transient fields in a class are
How to write basic types of data to an object file
How to implement the Serializable interface
How to read objects from a file
How to implement serialization for classes containing objects that are not serializable by default
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