This is an article that a Java developer should be awared of. It's not really innovative; it just points out the basics that one should know when it comes to serializing an object in Java. For more exhaustive lecture (covering many more important issues related to Java programming), I suggest reading Effective Java by Joshua Bloch.
By the way, if you didn't read Java Generics and Collections by Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler (homepage), you really should.
