Question

Which of these is a process of writing the state of an object to a byte stream?

(a) Serialization

(b) Externalization

(c) File Filtering

(d) All of the mentioned

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This key question is from Serialization in section Serialization & Networking of Java

Answer 1

Right answer is (a) Serialization

To elaborate: Serialization is the process of writing the state of an object to a byte stream. This is used when you want to save the state of your program to a persistent storage area.