| Author: mahendrakiran 13 Nov 2008 | Member Level: Gold Points : 2 |
serialization is the process of saving an object onto a storage medium (such as a file, or a memory buffer) or to transmit it across a network connection link in binary form.
When the resulting series of bytes is reread according to the serialization format,it can be used to create an accurate clone of the original object.
This process of serializing an object is also called deflating or marshalling an object.
The opposite operation, extracting a data structure from a series of bytes, is deserialization (which is also called inflating or unmarshalling).
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