Java Serializable Object to Byte Array

Question

Let\'s say I have a serializable class AppMessage.

I would like to transmit it as byte[] over sockets to another machine where it is rebuil

Answer 1

If you are using spring, there's a util class available in spring-core. You can simply do

import org.springframework.util.SerializationUtils;

byte[] bytes = SerializationUtils.serialize(anyObject);
Object object = SerializationUtils.deserialize(bytes);