I will create a jira.

Should there be a vote about the format of the uid?

--heinz

On 8/31/06, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 31, 2006, at 7:01 AM, Zakharov, Vasily M wrote:
> Note however, that small values like 1 or 2 are traditionally used as
> serialVersionUIDs for synthetic and other system classes, like
> Enums and
> RMI Stubs, that are serialized in a special way. So using such
> values in
> "normal" classes may confuse the future readers of the code and make
> them wonder if that particular class is serialized in a special
> way. So
> I'm suggesting using traditional (20-digit or so) values for
> serialVersionUIDs.

I think that using the short versions... 1, 2, 3, 4... is fine for
any serializable.  Its much easier to manage too and much easier to
debug when mismatch problems arise, since you can see which version
is older and how old... using the generated longass versions just
shows you they are different, not which is older.

--jason



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