What is serialization in Java?
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<p>I've made a small RSS Reader app using Swing and Eclipse keeps telling me "The serializable class MochaRSSView does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long"</p>

<p>What is serialization and what benefits would it have?</p>
