ClassDefinitionBuilder is used to build and register ClassDefinitions manually.

This is an exception thrown when an exception occurs while serializing/deserializing objects.

Class for serializing/deserializing Java Class types

Class for serializing/deserializing Java enums

For sample usage custom serialization and other way of custom serialization see IStreamSerializer<T> . Note that read and write methods should be compatible

ClassDefinition defines a class schema for Portable classes.

Data is basic unit of serialization.

DataSerializable is a serialization method as an alternative to standard serialization.

DataSerializableFactory is used to create IdentifiedDataSerializable instances during de-serialization.

FieldDefinition defines name, type, index of a field

IIdentifiedDataSerializable is a serialization method as an alternative to standard serialization. It uses a factory to avoid reflection during deserialization. IDataSerializableFactory

Portable provides an alternative serialization method.

PortableFactory is used to create Portable instances during de-serialization.

Provides a mean of reading portable fields from a binary in form of primitives, arrays of primitives , nested portable fields and array of portable fields.

Provides a mean of writing portable fields to a binary in form of primitives, arrays of primitives , nested portable fields and array of portable fields.

Base interface of custom serialization interfaces

see IByteArraySerializer<T> see IStreamSerializer<T>

A base class for custom serialization.

VersionedPortable is an extension to IPortable to support per class version instead of a global serialization version.