>>>>> "Carsten" == Carsten Neumann <cn-develop@xxxxxxx> writes: Carsten> I'm new around here and was looking for a spot where I could make a Carsten> contribution. Browsing the japi test results I noticed that a lot of Carsten> SerialVersionUID missmatches are reported. Fixing these appears to be Carsten> quite simple, so I'll start with that unless there a some pitfalls Carsten> (maybe of the nasty legal type) involved ? Most of the mismatches occur in Swing... but Swing is explicitly documented upstream as not really being serializable. You're only supposed to serialize Swing objects if you know that they will be deserialized on a VM running the same version. So, we generally haven't bothered with these. I don't really know what we should do long term. Maybe fixing these to be compatible is best. However it isn't sufficient to add the serialVersionUID, you need to also make sure that the serialized forms are the same. Usually this involves renaming fields and marking some transient. There are some other mismatches in external code. I filed bug reports upstream but haven't gotten an answer. At some point I think we ought to just go ahead and fix these, with a local patch. Tom
