I am looking for review and a sponsor. Webrev is available at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/JDK-6783290/webrev.01/
The serialization of javax.management.MBeanInfo and javax.management.MBeanFeatureInfo instances is asymmetrical in cases with no attached descriptor. The descriptor is serialized as an empty array but when deserializing the descriptor is not read back at all. Currently for RMI this does not pose any problem but the specification does not explicitly allow this kind of behaviour and it may cause troubles eventually. The patch just reads back the empty array to keep the serialization/deserialization symmetric. Thanks, -JB-
