Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In this Java serialization example, we will use both the ObjectOutputStream and the ...

Copying objects is a common Java programming operation that has one serious trap. Here's how to avoid copying from an object reference and only copy the instance and values you want. Copying objects ...

Serialization is the process of taking a data object and converting it into a stream of bytes (binary format), so it can be transported across a network or saved inside a database, only to be ...

All of the details I demonstrated and explained in this blog posting related to Enums being inherently Serializable are concisely described in two paragraphs of Section 1.12 (“Serialization of Enum ...