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1. How does Java's serialization work and when it should be used instead of some other persistence technique?    stackoverflow.com

I've been lately trying to learn more and generally test Java's serialization for both work and personal projects and I must say that the more I know about it, the less ...

2. What is best practice for serializing Java enums to XML?    stackoverflow.com

Hi I have a Java enum and I want serialize a variable containing an enum value back and forth from XML for persistence. My enum is defined like this...

public enum ...

3. What difference makes a Serialized object, as it can be persisted?    stackoverflow.com

As we know Serializable is a Marker Interface(ie Interface without any methods). So i was wondering how implementing this interface makes an object of the implementing class to be persisted, As ...

4. how to persist third party classes in java    stackoverflow.com

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In java how do I serialize a class that is not marked Serializable?

5. How to de-serialize an entity, put it in managed context, but not persist any changes?    stackoverflow.com

I'm new into persistence and I want to do the following: 1) Load a part of database into entities and store them in a file 2) Load those entities from file, put them ...