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Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to dis Java. Java serialization has many requirements, the main one being able to serialize anything (or at least anything that implements Serializable ), into any other JVM (even a different JVM version/implementation), even running a different version of the classes being serialized (as long as you set a serialVersionUID ). The main thing is it just works, and that is really great. Performance is not the main requirement, and the format is standard and must be backw