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Trail: JDK(TM) 1.1 -- And Beyond!
Lesson: A Preview of Things to Come

## Serialization Enhancements

> Serialization now includes an API that allows the persistent data of an object to be specified independently of the fields of the class and allows those persistent data fields to be written to and read from the stream using the existing protocol to insure compatiblity with the default writing and reading mechanisms.

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