Serialization

It is the process of transforming object or data structure into a format that can be stored and revive in the same or different environment.

The serialization is used to convert the object into byte of stream that can be stored into memory (database or file) or shared over the network in a web service call and to stores the state of the object so that it can be recreate the original form of the object. In general, we have come across the stuff like cookies. Conceptually serialized object is similar to cookies since cookies also can be stored anywhere or shared over network.

The web service and Ajax are two general example of serialization. Here before sending the data over the network, we used to serialize the data.

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