ObjectInputStream happy with FileInputStream, not happy with getResourceAsStream

Question

I have some pretty standard code which takes in a serialized object from a stream, which bascially looks like this:

  Object getObjectFromStream(InputStream is) {         


        

Answer 1

EFBFBD is a UTF-8 representation of Unicode replacement character U+FFFD. So, it looks like file was passed through some encoding conversion process.

Maven can be a suspect, especially its resource filtering feature.