Serialization doubt

[Ami Ambre]

When you want to do only a part of the serialisation/deserialisation
yourself you must invoke the defaultReadObject() & defaultWriteObject().

What defaultReadObject() & defaultWriteObject() does?

[kunal dabir]

When you want to do only a part of the serialisation/deserialisation
yourself you must invoke the defaultReadObject() & defaultWriteObject().

What defaultReadObject() & defaultWriteObject() does?

1. It's not compulsory to invoke defaultReadObject() & defaultWriteObject().
2. both methods are called to carry out the serialization/deserialization process which would occur if you had not implemented read/writeObject.

Also remember, the order in which you call defaultXXXObject() inside XXXObject() is also very important.

[Ankit Garg]

defaultReadObject and defaultWriteObject methods read and write non-static fields of a class which are not transient...

[Bob Ruth]

Where I have seen that discussed is in the case where you want to write out field values that are non-serializable so you override the writeObject() and readObject() methods. Within your overridden method you still have to account for serializing the serializable part of the object/object graph, so you should imbed a defaultWriteObject() / defaultReadObject() to do the normal part of serialization/deserialization. At least that is what I thought it was.