Package net.sf.mmm.util.serialization.api

Provides the API for utilities that help to deal with (de)serialization.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Serializer	This is the interface to serialize and deserialize arbitrary Java objects.

Package net.sf.mmm.util.serialization.api Description

Provides the API for utilities that help to deal with (de)serialization.

Util Serialization API

Java offers a seamless serialization mechanism that allows to serialize any serializable object to binary data (byte[]) and vice versa. However, there are alternative solutions to Java serialization that offer some advantages like transparency by human-readable data (e.g. as JSON) or better performance (e.g. by (generated) custom code). Therefore we offer a minimal abstraction of serialization via the Serializer interface.