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Posted by Matthew Francis
Matthew Francis
6,967 Points

Newbie - Explanation on Serialization

From what I've gathered, it's the act of storing,cloning,transmitting an object into a database and file. Correct? if so, how do these apply in real life? I can't seem to think of any situation where I'll do these, maye because I have limited knowledge on Java. And in what situation do ou want to deserelize?

markmneimneh
markmneimneh
14,133 Points

Hi

Let assume that you program is collecting the Dept sales info for the month, and does elaborate calculations to prepare a report for the boss

Some one else has to prepare the fancy report for the boss. This Someone else is and admin who is expert in fancy PowerPoint presentations.

But this admin is not a programmer and can't run programs. All this admin cares about is an excel file that can be used to make fancy charts.

So .. you run the program ... you serialize the data to an XLS file ... the admin picks up the XLS file and does the fancy charts for the boss.

This is an over simplification, but it is an example. Normally, I would write have the program write the sales data calculations to a Database so it get stored months to month.

Hope this helps.