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Serialization Utilities

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.ObjectInputStream; import java.io.ObjectOutputStream; public class SerializationUtils {     public static byte[] serialize(Object obj) {         try {             ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();             ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(buffer);             oos.writeObject(obj);             oos.close();             return buffer.toByteArray();         } catch (IOException e) {             e.printStackTrace();             throw new RuntimeException("error writing to byte-array!");         }     }     public static Object deserialize(byte[] bytes)             throws ClassNotFoundException {         try {             ByteArrayInputStream input = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);             ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(input);             return ois.readObject();         } catch (IOException e) {             e.printStackTrace();             throw new RuntimeException("error reading from byte-array!");         }     }     public static Object serializedCopy(Object obj) {         try {             return deserialize(serialize(obj));         } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {             throw new RuntimeException("this shouldn't happen");         }     } }