Re: [cp-patches] [generics] FYI: Minor fixes to java.lang

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 10:09 +0100, Meskauskas Audrius wrote:
> +    /**
> +     * For compatability with Sun's JDK
> +     */
> 
> If possible, I would suggest not referring to our shiny Sun without the real 
> need.
> 
> Generally, it is very good to have serialVersionUID fixed, and not just 
> because of that compatibility.
> 
> Audrius.
> 
> 
> 

The reference here is not to have a fixed UID, but to having the same
value as Sun's JDK for serialization compatibility.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/docs/hacking.html#SEC17

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