I returned to the Hilton San Francisco for the last two sessions of JavaOne 2011. The first of these was Steve Poole’s (IBM) “Serialization: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques” (24606) in Golden Gate 6/7/8.

Java’s Serializable interface provides an easy-to-use programming interface for converting between a runtime object and a byte stream. Serialization involves mapping a runtime object or an object ...