Hi Kelly.
Kelly O'Hair wrote:
I assume this is being fixed in all releases, if so, approved.
Correct; I've already pushed the fix to 7 update and JDK 8 and the
sustaining team will be applying the fix to the 6 update train. I'll do
the push to OpenJDK 6 later today.
Thanks,
-Joe
-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
