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When you want to write your own implementaion of serialization implement Externalizable interface which sub interface of Serialization. Whe you implement Externalizable interface you need implement readExternal() & writeExternal() methods of Externalizable interface.
Nikhil Bansal
Greenhorn
Posts: 21
posted 12 years ago
But how is it different from Serializable.
Nikhil
Kj Reddy
Ranch Hand
Posts: 1704
posted 12 years ago
When you implement Serializable, JVM will take care of the serialization but Externalizable the coder need to take care of logid of serialization by implementing Externalizable interface methods.
