>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath

