What is object marshalling?
Converting an object in memory into a format that can be written to disk, or sent over the wire, etc.
Wikipedia's description.
I beg to differ, Wikipedia is pretty clear on this.
In computer science, marshalling (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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science)