Hello, Do we need to have serialVersionUIDs for all Serializable classes even if those fields are missing in API Spec or we might omit them?
According to Java Object Serialization Specification, 4.6 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/serialization/spec/class.html#4100 "It is strongly recommended that all serializable classes explicitly declare serialVersionUID values, since the default serialVersionUID computation is highly sensitive to class details that may vary depending on compiler implementations, and can thus result in unexpected serialVersionUID conflicts during deserialization, causing deserialization to fail" I suggest to have these fields for all serialized classes, unless there is a particular reason for those classes not to have serialVersionUID (And I'm not saying that we need them instead of serialization tests :) Opinions? Thanks, Mikhail Loenko Intel Middleware Products Division
