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

Think of them as synonyms, both have a producer that sends stuff over to a consumer... In the end fields of instances are written into a byte stream and the other end foes the reverse ands up with the same instances.

NB - java RMI also contains support for transporting classes that are missing from the recipient...