Re: Serialver [was Re: [PATCH]]

[Bryce McKinlay]

Eric Blake wrote:

> Therefore, the safest course of action is to explicitly have a
> serialVersionUID for all Serializeable classes, rather than relying on
> the implicit UID generated by the undocumented hash behavior.  

After reading your explanation, I agree.

> Note that the serialVersionUID field should be a private variable (Sun's 
> serialver
> neglects this fact, making it seem like package-private is acceptable),
> so that it is not inherited by other subclasses in the same package.

Actually this shouldn't matter, since the serialization code looks up 
serialVersionUID using getDeclaredField(), which will not return fields 
declared in superclasses.

regards

Bryce.