Java serialization introduces security flaws across many libraries. Discussions are open to modularize serialization. If serialization becomes a module, developers would be able to remove from the ...

Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...

Oracle plans to drop from Java its serialization feature that has been a thorn in the side when it comes to security. Also known as Java object serialization, the feature is used for encoding objects ...

MicroStream is a modern Java object graph persistence layer that achieves high performance through a vastly superior approach to serialization. Let’s take a look. MicroStream is a very interesting and ...

Serialization is the process of saving an object’s state to a sequence of bytes; deserialization is the process of rebuilding those bytes into a live object. The Java Serialization API provides a ...

When you serialize an object, class meta information is serialized along with the object’s state. One of the pieces of metadata that is written is the class’s serial version. When you attempt to ...