I have a complex set of data models that currently implement java.io.Serializable, and I have successfully serialized and deserialized them with ObjectOutputStream and ObjectInputStream.
However, the result are binary files (as expected), and I was wondering if Java supports serialization and deserialization in the same manner to a non-binary format, such as XML.
I see that C# has this feature: XML vs Binary performance for Serialization/Deserialization.
Performance speed/ efficiency is not a consideration in this case.
Yes, Java has it and it’s called XML Encoding. Check it out here!
The approach is quite similar to the normal serialization..