a stream of bytes) which could then be either reified in a different runtime, or simply stored in a database, a file or in memory.Marshalling and serialization might thus be done differently, although some form of serialization is usually used to do marshalling.

The term deserialization is somewhat similar to un-marshalling a dry object "on the server side", i.e., demarshalling (or unmarshalling) to get a live object back: the serialized object is transformed into an internal data structure, i.e., a live object within the target runtime.