The docs seem to imply that too: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html
"It is also strongly advised that explicit serialVersionUID declarations use the private modifier where possible, since such declarations apply only to the immediately declaring class--serialVersionUID fields are not useful as inherited members." On Jun 15, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > On Jun 14, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote: > >> It seems to me that subclass versioning would be designed to be >> independent of the superclass versioning. > > I haven't researched that deeply, but IIRC this is correct. There's no > inheritance of serialVersionUID. > > > Also re:superclass... If it is a CayenneDataObject subclass, it does not > include any ivars either. It is all read-through to CayenneDataObject. So all > of the _Foo should have the same serialVersionUID. > > ROP client superclasses on the other hand are field-based... > > Andrus > >
