These functions are used to serialize instances of the class, e.g. to spill them to disk, hold them in byte arrays or send them over the network.
--sebastian On 18.11.2013 16:26, Jyoti Yadav wrote: > Hi folks... > > Would you please explain me in simple words--What is the use of following > two functions in Writable.java class. > > 1. public void readFields(DataInput in) > 2. public void write(DataOutput out) > > When we are going to write some custom class which is implementing > Writable.java , then how we should deal with these two functions...?? > > Thanks > Jyoti >
