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The Serialization interface is essentially a flag as there are NO methods or data attached to this interface -- implementing Serialization implies your willingness to be saved using default Java mechanism!
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The Serialization process is typically implemented by a container (Java Applet, Application, Java Beans Container)
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Typically one serializes to an output stream and deserializes from an input stream
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DataOutput Interface describes streams that can write out data in a machine independent fashion
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ObjectOutputStream class extends DataOutput (and an ObjectOutput Interface) and defines methods to write out variables of all the primitive types with a general
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writeObject(Object obj)
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and a whole bunch of methods like writeShort(int data)
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