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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.
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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.
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