The vulnerability is part of a class of bugs that stem from Java object deserialization and which security researchers have warned about a year ago. In programming languages, serialization is the ...

In anticipating the need to evolve a serializable class, Java serialization provides a serialVersionUID, also called suid, in the ObjectStreamClass for version control. suid is used to inform the ...

Announced last year, the project is being led by Oracle's rockstar Java architect Brian Goetz. "Once we have records, the Java version of data classes, then it's part of the long term vision to have a ...

This image and the preceding code listings demonstrate that Java serialization can be an effective method for lightweight persistence. Serialization is not limited to standard Java SDK classes. It ...