this.stateAbbreviation = newStateAbbreviation; } } Because enums are automatically Serializable (see Javadoc API documentation for Enum), there is no need to explicitly add the “implements ...

Serialization is the process of saving an object’s state to a sequence of bytes; deserialization is the process of rebuilding those bytes into a live object. The Java Serialization API provides a ...

Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...