Section 15.5 Object Serialization
• Java provides a mechanism called object serialization (p. 662) that enables entire objects to be written to or read from a stream.
• A serialized object (p. 662) is represented as a sequence of bytes that includes the object’s data as well as information about the object’s type and the types of data it stores.
• After a serialized object has been written into a file, it can be read from the file and deserialized (p. 662) to recreate the object in memory.
• Classes ObjectInputStream (p. 662) and ObjectOutputStream (p. 662) enable entire objects to be read from or written to a stream (possibly a file).
• Only classes that implement interface Serializable (p. 663) can be serialized and deserialized.
• The ObjectOutput ...
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