<p>Is it possible to serialize and deserialize a class in C++?</p>

<p>I've been using Java for 3 years now, and serialization / deserialization is fairly trivial in that language. Does C++ have similar features? Are there native libraries that handle serialization?</p>

<p>An example would be helpful.</p>

The
```
Boost::serialization
```
library handles this rather elegantly. I've used it in several projects. There's an example program, showing how to use it,
here
.
The only native way to do it is to use streams. That's essentially all the
```
Boost::serialization
```
library does, it extends the stream method by setting up a framework to write objects to a text-like format and read them from the same format.
For built-in types, or your own types with
```
operator<<
```
and
```
operator>>
```
properly defined, that's fairly simple; see
the C++ FAQ
for more information.