* Neal Gafter: > Unfortunately, many inner classes are only "incidentally" serializable - > that is, they are serializable because the superclass or some implemented > interface extends Serializable. A simple example would be an inner > exception class - even though most programs do not serialize exceptions, > this would trigger the proposed diagnostic.
Inner exception classes probably should be non-static. And many incidentally serializable classes already receive a warning under -Xlint due to a missing serialVersionUID field. If necessary, the warning could be restricted to classes with a declared serialVersionUID member, or class definitions explicitly implementing the Serializable interface. (I spent a few hours hunting down a bug caused by a mismatch between this$0 and this$1, that's why I think something should be done about it.) -- Florian Weimer <[email protected]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99
