Having known about serializations as the process of saving an object onto a storage medium I wanted to know whether there is any drawback in serialization. If so someone highlight on those.
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Having known about serializations as the process of saving an object onto a storage medium I wanted to know whether there is any drawback in serialization. If so someone highlight on those.
The main drawback of serialization is one has to take high care of the compatibility when maintaining the software.This is not necessarily hard nor painful, but nonetheless mandatory, so it must be made clear for the developers that changing the source code of an analyzer/stemmer/whatever that is stored in the serialization data MUST manage ascendant compatibility. The java serialization is strict on this point