Pharmaceutical counterfeiting is on the rise – and a growing health and safety issue with deep consequences for consumers and manufacturers alike. A number of factors contribute to counterfeiting, ...

Serialization converts an object's state into a stream of bytes so that it can be persisted in a permanent or temporary storage medium When working with applications, you’ll often need to store data ...

The major markets for pharmaceuticals have been forever transformed with the arrival of mandated serialization. With both the United States Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and European Union ...

Serialization is the process of converting a Java object into a sequence of bytes so they can be written to disk, sent over a network, or stored outside of memory. Later, the Java virtual machine (JVM ...

During the 2017 ISA Food and Pharmaceuticals Industries Division (FPID) Symposium, I attended an informative presentation by John Woodburn on the implementation of serialization and lessons learned.

Compliance is a serious issue for India’s pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers; due to the complicated nature of the pharmaceutical supply chain. Serialization requires ...

Now past the “wait-and-see” standoff, most pharmaceutical companies and their contract partners are considering long-term requirements, including distributors’ needs. Vendor-sponsored events in 2016 ...

An effective data structure and simple communication between production, logistics, and sales are essential for delivering this level of accountability, traceability, and security. The growth in ...

The XmlSerializer class provides a great way to convert (serialize) objects to XML and back (deserialize). However, it can be difficult to serialize collections such as Arrays and ArrayLists properly ...

Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...