Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: how does a marker interface give specific instruction to jvm(java internals) Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 07:41:56 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 7 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 11:42:39 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8e164d158183579609bf09837dee5210"; logging-data="3062"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+6N8JFev2J9j4HANbrpClbTDJS0MIAn5g=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:T4wAGVVgzQZXeC8BJHszRHDmGek= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:31662 On 05/10/2015 06:08 AM, Ajay Paul wrote: > For example if I implement Serializable for a class, it will give specific instruction to jvm that this class needs to be treated differently. Initially I thought that there might be a native method call inside this interface however when I see the Serializable.java source code, there is none. > > How does declaring a class Serializable or clonable enable it to be treated differently. >