Why it is called Marshalling?

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Aan picture Aan · May 29, 2011 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

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Why is the concept of Marshalling called as such?

Why the conversion between two types is called Marshalling! What is the meaning behind Marshal, why we don't just use the word convert, is there any difference. Please try to keep a simple english as possible as you can.

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Etienne de Martel picture Etienne de Martel · May 29, 2011

Because it's not the same thing.

From Wikipedia:

In computer science, marshalling (sometimes spelled marshaling, similar to serialization) is the process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission. It is typically used when data must be moved between different parts of a computer program or from one program to another.

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