How Marker Interface is handled by JVM

Question

Marker interface doesn\'t has any thing. It contains only interface declarations, then how it is handled by the JVM for the classes which implements this marker interface?

Answer 1

The word "serializable" is confusing in this context, as many novice programmers like myself take it to mean that "serializable" interface does the serialization, i.e. the process of converting the abstract data type to bytes. But as the literature shows, serializable interface is just a "marker" and the real work of converting ADT to bytes (I will call this the process of getting metadata) is done by ObjectOutputStream. Similarly deserialization is done by ObjectInputStream.