I had always wondered how stand alone applications store
information of a job in files. e.g. Microsoft Word does in a
.doc(x) file, Microsoft Excel does in a .xls(x) file. Then I
happened to learn about serialization. As I delved more and more
into it, I realized serialization has a much bigger use than a
mere storage job. However, in this article, I am just taking up
the use of serialization as a job storer. Just like I had put it
in my last article: On a personal note: I am not much of a
professional programmer nor am I backed with years of
experience. I haven't written the article with the view of
teaching a new concept altogether. For that, there are some real
cool guys out here. I consider myself a little above beginners’
level. My aim is just to share something that may save time for
some developers and thus contribute to this wonderful community
here. The code presented may not be optimum; I sincerely invite
your comments so that I may keep the article updated.
Serialization is a technique which allows