Jason Rutherglen wrote:
if you don't set serialVersionUID yourself, then java assigns a
rather volatile one for you
True however the Java specification defines how the serialVersionUID
should
be created in the event it's not defined. The caveat being it's not
strictly enforced and so Sun alternative compilers may decide to
change how
it's created (from what I've read). Base classes like Term and
Query don't
change very often so we may want to settle on a serialVersionUID for
these
top level classes.
Makes sense. Besides having to remember to change the
serialVersionUID, are
there any known downsides to setting it explicitly?
Lucene sets it for 2 sources now (RAMFile & RAMDirectory).
Was a different compiler used for the 2.4 release compared to 2.3?
Likely, yes (two different people, Michael and Mike (me!), in
different envs,
did the releases).
Mike
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