What is a JavaBean exactly?

Question

I understood, I think, that a \"Bean\" is a Java class with properties and getters/setters. As much as I understand, it is the equivalent of a C struct. Is that true?

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Answer 1

Regarding the second part of your question, Serialization is a persistence mechanism used to store objects as a sequence of signed bytes. Put less formally, it stores the state of an object so you can retrieve it later, by de-serialization.