In general the process of taking some convoluted internal data structure and generating a linear representation of it which can be used to reconstruct the internal data structures at a later time. This is the fundament underlying persistence and transfer of complex data over channels.

Examples on the wiki

   * [Serializing a Bitmap]
   * [Serializing a Photo]
   * [Serializing a Canvas widget]
   * [Serializing a Widget]
   * [Serializing a Text widget]
   * [A Widget Serializer]