Last month, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, said during a conference Q&A that one of Oracle's long-term goals is to change the way Java handles object serialization. In fact, he called the ...

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There is little doubt that serialization issues plague Java and that addressing the underlying causes will benefit the Java community. But, how long will it take to bring a new approach to the ...

Removing serialization is one of the goals of Project Amber, Reinhold noted, which is the OpenJDK project that aims to "explore and incubate smaller, productivity-oriented Java language features that ...