> -----Original Message----- > From: Jörg Schaible [mailto:joerg.schai...@gmx.de] > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 14:11 > To: dev@commons.apache.org > Subject: RE: VFS release > > Gary Gregory wrote: > > > How about warnings like: > > > > Description Resource Path Location Type > > The serializable class FileNotFolderException does not declare a static > > final serialVersionUID field of type long > FileNotFolderException.java > > /commons-vfs2/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2 line 24 Java > Problem > > > > ? > > The serialVersionUID is part of the binary compatibility therefore it should > be set to be sure. Setting it implies though that you update it every time > you change the binary layout of the class (ot take further actions to keep > serialization compatibility). Without using an explicit value, the > serialVeeionUID is computed on its own and you might not even notice the > problem (in former times different compilers created sometimes different > UIDs). In our code we set it normally to the date of last modification if > the binary layout e.g. 20101102L.
I usually add serialVersionUID = -1 but I do like your convention. So I added serialVersionUID = 20101208L Gary > > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
