Serialization is a process by which the object writes a record of itself to a persistent storage medium
such as a disk fi le and reloads itself by reading the record back. Serialization is the process of converting
a set of object instances that contains references to each other into a linear stream of bytes, which can
then be sent through a socket, sorted to a fi le or simply manipulated as a stream of data. Serialization is a
mechanism used by RMI to pass objects between JVMs, either as arguments in a method invocation from
a client to a server or as return values from a method invocation. The basic ...
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