This package provides a mechanism for using different serialization frameworks in Hadoop. The property "io.serializations" defines a list of {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.Serialization}s that know how to create {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.Serializer}s and {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.Deserializer}s.

To add a new serialization framework write an implementation of {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.Serialization} and add its name to the "io.serializations" property.