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Quote: the serialized form is part of the API; it limits a class's implementation; serialization is less reliable and less secure, requiring more testing
Topic:
object serialization
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Item 54: Implement Serializable judiciously … it decreases the flexibility to change a class's … form) becomes part of its exported API. … [p. 214] it increases the likelihood of bugs and … serialization is an extralinguistic mechanism for creating objects. … it increases the testing burden … [p. 215] As a rule of thumb, value classes … entities, such as thread pools, should rarely implement … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: implement Serializable only for value classes and collection classes
Topic: object serialization (13 items)