From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:38:31 -0700

Mark Hansen wrote:
> Does anybody know why JAXB uses the term "marshal" instead of
> "serializer"? And "unmarshal" instead of "deserialize"?

When I joined the project, it was already called "marshalling" and
"unmarshalling".

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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com