Externalizable vs Serializable

Last modified on August 1st, 2014 by Joe.

You may need Externalizable,

  1. If you are not happy with the way java writes/reads objects from stream.
  2. Special handling for supertypes on object construction during serialization.

Comments on "Externalizable vs Serializable"

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  4. DC says:

    right to point explaination

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  6. Shamil says:

    You can also change default serialization behavior with Serializable interface by overriding writeObject and readObject methods.

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  12. Hari says:

    Hi

    I am Hari, i found exactly what i was looking for in this post, it would be great if you can provide some example here as well. Keep up the good work you. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

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  17. Farid says:

    if we use serialization to save an object on memory then we modify that class(definatly object has changed now) now we deserialize that object what will be happen, kindly answer

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  25. hari says:

    good explanation …thanks for the article

  26. Anonymous says:

    thanks for providing helping material

  27. Anonymous says:

    Explanation states that during deserialization constructor runs, but it is not the case. Please update the article.

  28. Joe says:

    What I have written is, “..In object de-serialization (reconsturction) the public no-argument constructor is used to reconstruct the object. In case of Serializable, instead of using constructor, the object is re-consturcted using data read from ObjectInputStream…”

    Looks like you have misunderstood what I have written :-)

  29. Joe says:

    So happy to know that.

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  30. Anonymous says:

    It helps me a lot…
    Thank you.

  31. Anonymous says:

    Hi Joe,

    Y singleton object will be de-serialized to a new instance even though it is singleton.

    Can u pls explains this.

  32. Kumar says:

    Hello Joe,
    This is really a nice blog.
    When I was reading this blog, a q comes in my mind, why we have externalization when we can override our writeObject and readObject for Serialization and can have a customer implementation for write and read Object.

  33. nitin says:

    YOu have mentioned that in case of serialization, “the object is re-consturcted using data read from ObjectInputStream…” but
    ObjectInputStream is used in de-serialization process. It’s little confusing. Please clarify a bit more that..

  34. Rakesh P says:

    why we have Externalizable when we can override writeObject and readObject in java

  35. jessica says:

    Very useful article, thanks a lot!

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