Serialization and Persistent Objects

"Serialization and Persistent Objects" is a technical book that addresses the efficient storage and processing of large data sets with complex relationships. Given the growing demands of modern applications, such as iPhone apps and biochemical software, the book by Jiri Soukup and Petr Machácek provides a comprehensive guide to the automatic and transparent storage of internal data on hard drives. The authors present specialized data structure libraries that treat relationships between objects as first-class entities, along with a UML class diagram generator to significantly simplify core application code. A benchmark chapter demonstrates how persistent data is generally many times faster than traditional databases, both in traversal and data access. The book is aimed at professional programmers working in the industry and imparts knowledge on designing custom persistent data or efficiently utilizing existing packages.