Can we deny a java object from serialization other than giving transient keyword

Question

We can avoid serialising fields by using the transient keyword. Is there any other way of doing that?

Answer 1

This is what transient means as a a keyword. Its whole purpose is to stop the serialization of the data for whatever reason.

If you wanted a finer grain control over the process you can use the writeObject/readObject methods that the ObjectOutputStream/ObjectInputStream use as part of the serialization process, and you could combine that with some custom annotations or any logic you wanted.

private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream stream)
 throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException;
private void writeObject(java.io.ObjectOutputStream stream)
 throws IOException