Implementing Serializable
Loss of data during restart
Serializable
. Some would do this only if necessary, since
implementing Serializable is not trivial.
This allows the servlet container to either store the contents of a session on disk, or to transfer session contents over the network to another server.
In the case of a restart, the web container may attempt to implement
a "failover" strategy by attempting to serialize all data stored in session
scope, in order to recover the data after the restart has completed - this
will work only if such data implements Serializable
.