Serialization is the process of writing the state of an object to a medium that can be persisted or transported. The complement of serialization is deserialization, which converts the data from the medium to an object. Together those two processes allow data to be easily stored and transferred.

NOV implements two different types of serialization:

• DOM - DOM serialization allows you to persists document trees which contain NNode derived objects, primitive types and custom serializable objects.
• CLR - CLR serialization allows you to persist object graphs that can contain objects, structures, generics etc.