Re: [cp-patches] FYI: Bumped up serialVersionUIDs in javax.swing

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 13:49 +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Saturday 28 May 2005 14:46, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> >  I imagine its reasonable to suggest supporting RMI
> > (which requires serialization) for e.g. the SpinnerDateModel, but I
> > don't see why we need it for the components (perhaps someone wants to
> > enlighten me?)
> 
> There are people that find the instantiation and startup of Java to take too 
> long so they serialize the whole instantiated GUI and then write that to a 
> binairy blob to the jar file.
> The client then starts the GUi by deserialising that file and showing it.
> 
> I think its butt-ugly and feel it does not need to be supported, but there 
> are people out there (mostly companies) that do it.  So, now you know :)

Yeh, and I can believe it...
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