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03 February 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to override the default Java serialization mechanism and also how to provide a custom serialization implementation.

By implementing the Serializable interface we are defining our class to be serializable by the JVM (we have already seen basic serialization before at Java Serializable example). This time we will cov... Read more

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Java transient modifier example

22 January 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to use the transient keyword as a property modifier in Java.

The transient keyword may be used as a property modifier in Java and is directly related with serialization. In short the properties declared as transient are not serialized by the default serializati... Read more

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Java Externalizable example

17 January 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to implement a custom serialization mechanism by implementing the Externalizable interface.

The Externalizable interface provides the necessary means for implementing a custom serialization mechanism. Implementing the Externalizable interface means that we must override some of its methods, ... Read more

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Java Serializable example

14 January 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to serialize a Java object to the file system and read it afterwards.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to serialize a Java object to the file system. After serialization we will read it again into memory. Environment: Ubuntu 12.04 JDK 1.7.0.09 Read more

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