What is the purpose of Serialization in Java?

Question

I have read quite a number of articles on Serialization and how it is so nice and great but none of the arguments were convincing enough. I am wondering if someone can reall

Answer 1

While you're running your application, all of its objects are stored in memory (RAM). When you exit, that memory gets reclaimed by the operating system, and your program essentially 'forgets' everything that happened while it was running. Serialization remedies this by letting your application save objects to disk so it can read them back the next time it starts. If your application is going to provide any way of saving/sharing a previous state, you'll need some form of serialization.