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Foil 8 Object Serialization

From Overview of JDK Version 1.1 Extensions CPS616 -- Information Track of CPS -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken
1 Provides the ability to write the complete state of an object to an output stream and then recreate the object later by reading the serialized representation from an input stream.
2 Classes ObjectOutputStream and ObjectInputStream have methods to read and write objects (as well as primitive types).
3 Used for transferring objects in cut-and-paste, RMI, and JavaBeans.
4 Also useful for saving customized or pre-initialized states of objects such as GUI's.
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