Serialization is the process of converting an object's state to a format that can be persisted or transmitted. To be clear, you can output to a file with an object output stream. If the output is not serialized. It could be messy!
Implementation is the implementation of the Java.io.Serializable interface. This interface does not need to implement any specific methods. Just implements Java.io.Serializable.
The serialization mechanism in Java enables an instance object to be serialized (only the property values of an object are serializable, without serializing what is called a method). The state information is written to a byte stream so that it can be transmitted through the socket, or persisted to the storage database or file system, and then, when needed, reconstructs an identical object through the information in the byte stream.
Generally speaking, to make a class serializable, simply implement the Java.io.Serializable interface.