what is serialization all about?

Question

Where exactly does serialization comes into the picture? I read about serializtion on the \'net and I have come to know that

it is an interface that

Answer 1

for example, when you want to send a object to some url, you might decide to send it in xml format. The process of converting from the in-memory object to (in this case) xml, is called serialization. Converting from xml to a in-memory is called de-serialization.