I've modified one file (the simplest i could find) to get rid of the bad 
practice notification of sonar as an example. Is this a format that we want?

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/syncope/trunk/console/src/main/java/org/apache/syncope/console/pages/panels/ResourcesPanel.java

On May 4, 2012, at 4:48 PM, René Mulder wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I've been going through the Sonar violations and found that we have 226 major 
> violations of the following type:
> 
> Bad practice - Serializable inner class
> 
> findbugs : SE_INNER_CLASS
> This Serializable class is an inner class. Any attempt to serialize it will 
> also serialize the associated outer instance. The outer instance is 
> serializable, so this won't fail, but it might serialize a lot more data than 
> intended. If possible, making the inner class a static inner class (also 
> known as a nested class) should solve the problem.
> 
> 
> 
> As I see it, the way to solve this is to extract these classes and inject the 
> fields that they currently use of the parent classes. The thing is, are these 
> classes really ever serialized without their parent class being serialized as 
> well? So is this indeed bad practice? And do we ever reuse these inner 
> classes? It seems to me that they are very specific to the parent class. So 
> basicly: should i solve this and how?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> René
>    
> 

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