serialVersionUID (again)

2002-10-11 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, There was a small discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (between Warren Levy, Tom Tromey, Michael Koch, Eric Blake and myself) when some of the newly added serialVersionUID fixes made by Michael were merged into libgcj. Since I assume not everybody reads that list I give the summary here (I hope

Re: serialVersionUID (again)

2002-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
Your summary seemed good to me. Mark Wielaard wrote: What I don't understand is why it is so hard to specify the actual accessor methods. Does anybody know why they were never clearly specified? Partly because it was a hack added in JDK 1.1. To maintain the most possible backward