What is a marker Interface?

What is marker or tagged interface?

An interface that have no member is known as marker or tagged interface. For example: Serializable, Cloneable, Remote etc. They are used to provide some essential information to the JVM so that JVM may perform some useful operation.

//How Serializable interface is written?
public interface Serializable{
}  

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