What is the difference between Serialization and Marshaling?

Question

I know that in terms of several distributed techniques (such as RPC), the term "Marshaling" is used but don\'t understand how it differs from Serialization. Aren\'

Answer 1

Marshalling is usually between relatively closely associated processes; serialization does not necessarily have that expectation. So when marshalling data between processes, for example, you may wish to merely send a REFERENCE to potentially expensive data to recover, whereas with serialization, you would wish to save it all, to properly recreate the object(s) when deserialized.