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In computer science, serialization means to force one-at-a-time access for the purposes of concurrency control, or to encode a data structure as a sequence of bytes. The opposite operation, to extract a data structure from a series of bytes, is deserialization.
This latter form of serialization (which is also referred to as marshalling) involves taking a data structure or object and encoding it into a regular and usually architecture-independent form, suitable for archiving to a file, piping to another application, or, by extension, transmission across a network. Usually the encoding takes the form of a byte stream (a sequence of bytes). When receiving a serialized stream, the encoding process is reversed to get a copy of the original data structure.
Message Edited by intel.software.network.support on 11-15-2005 11:36 PM
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