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RE: to tejinder!!!!

Posted by udayk on May 28, 2001 at 4:32 AM

Hi senthil,

Can I answer a bit.
Serialization means storing the state of an object to a
secondary storage. Yes, If you want to serialize an object
means, your object should implement the serialize interface.
Then by de-serialization you can restore the state of that
object.
Note that Primitive datatypes are not serializable, so you
can not store them in the secondary storage.

You are right that we can store the objects in the memory
by serialization.
Storing an object means, take shopping cart example of the
online shopping site. You've selected certain items into
your cart & suddenly power went/server crashed something
happend.. So next time you want to retain your selected
items means, you've to store the state of your cart in
some format... That can be either in database or a secondary
memory storage. So, if you choose to store it in secondary
memory then you've to serialize the state of your cart
so that next time you can retain it.

Hope it helps
-uday


> hello tejinder,
> u said the use of serialization lies in saving and restoring the state of an object,so do all objects use serialization, if we wanna save that object?
>
> What did u meant by saying storing objects? am not clear with that one?
> Is it that we can store objects in the memory by using serialization?
> can u kindly tell me this in detail.