What is the difference between cloning and seriliazation in java?

Answer 1

Cloning is the act of creating a new copy of an object. The new object should store all the same information as the original, but the physical data should be different.

Serialization is the act of turning an Object into an array of bytes which represent the data. This is used mainly for storing objects to disk. An Object which implements the Serializable interface can be used by ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream to easily hook into the java.io package.