Java: What can and what can't be serialized?

Question

If the Serializable interface is just a Marker-Interface that is used for passing some-sort of meta-data about classes in java - I\'m a bit confused:

After reading t

Answer 1

NotSerialisable exception is thrown when something in your serializable marked as serializable. One such case can be:

class Super{}
class Sub implements Serializable
{
Super super;

Here super is not mentioned as serializable so will throw NotSerializableException.