why hibernate forcing serialization in session.get method

Question

I see that hibernate\'s session.get() and load() methods is accepting only Serializable objects.

As per my understanding of hibernate, it will generate an SQL statem

Answer 1

I think it's because of the support for caching. When using a persistent cache, or any caching that distributes object via network you need to have a way of making sure the objects can be transported in a common format which, in this case, is Java serialization.