Provides for system input and output through data streams, serialization and the file system. Unless otherwise noted, passing a null argument to a constructor or method in any class or interface in this package will cause a NullPointerException to be thrown.

Package Specification

• Java Object Serialization Specification

Related Documentation

For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:

• Serialization Enhancements

since

JDK1.0