The following are the basic advantages of serialization:· Facilitate the transportation of an object through a network· Create a clone of an object

Serialization allows persisting objects. XML serializations stores objects in form of XML which has become a storage standard. The main advantage with XML is that it is platform, language independent. Any other software can practically read XML and write data, hence interoperability is an added advantage with XML serialization. XML also has the power to show relationships between various objects which is also advantageous when performing serialization of objects along with other related objects.