I assume this is being fixed in all releases, if so, approved. -kto
On Aug 22, 2011, at 6:25 PM, Joe Darcy wrote: > Hello. > > I hereby request to approval to backport > > 7080038: (ann) Serializable types in sun.reflect.annotation do not declare > serialVersionUIDs > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/71e353aba896 > > to OpenJDK 6. Some more description of the change is on > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2011-August/007490.html > > The problematic fix for 6761678 "(ann) SecurityException in > AnnotationInvocationHandler.getMemberMethods" has also present in OpenJDK 6 > since b13: > > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/762dd71f0008 > > This means that annotation objects with the correct serialVersionUIDs from > JDK 5, Sun/Oracle's JDK 6, and OpenJDK 6 b01 through b12 have *not* been > readable under OpenJDK 6 b13 to present (b23). > > Given that to my knowledge this issue has not previously been reported, I'm > inferring this is not a common usage pattern for annotations. > > Operationally, if the fix for 7080038 is applied to in OpenJDK 6 b24, that > will restore serial compatibility of annotations with OpenJDK 6 b01 through > b12 (and JDK 5, etc.) at the cost of creating a incompatibility with b13 > through b23. > > Since the original accidental change to the serialVersionUID went unnoticed, > I'm hoping changing it back will also not cause any operational difficulties. > > Cheers, > > -Joe
