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serialization

Posted by tejinder singh on May 12, 2001 at 1:44 PM

hi senthil
Serializable interface is just a flag to indicate that the object you want to serialize has the permission to be done.if we do not want any object state to not to be saved to any storage space than for that object we may not implement serializable interface.
the use of serialization lies in saving and restoring the state of an object .the primitive type variables do not require this as they are independent values and are saved as blocks of data.however an object is not an independent identity and is dependent upon other variables and may be other objects for its creation .hence saving an object requires the saving of all the objects and variables that it depends upon which to much extent is done by the system i.e java.if you have any further doubt do write.
tejinder