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Re: Wierd stuff in SocketPermission
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: Wierd stuff in SocketPermission |
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18 Jan 2006 12:50:23 -0700 |
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>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Benson <address@hidden> writes:
Gary> Does anybody know why java.net.SocketPermission's hostport member is
Gary> declared transient?
transient means that the field is not a candidate for serialization.
Gary> I'm working on a rewrite (spurred by PR 24708)
Gary> that would replace hostport entirely but I don't want to break stuff
Gary> inadvertantly!
Go for it. In combination with 'private', 'transient' is nice because
it means you can have a lot of confidence that removing the field
won't break anything. In other cases you may need to do a little more
research first...
Tom