>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> The question is what the fix is? In every service release of SUNs JDK >> they change some of the serialVersionUIDs. Whenever you run japi locally >> against another service release of SUN you will get other differences. Yeah. javax.swing is a special case here. Sun doesn't promise serialization compatibility. That is one argument for japi simply ignoring these classes. Andrew> DO we even know for sure which SerialVersionUIDs should be declared? For swing in particular, the documentation says that users cannot rely on serialization across versions. There are a few classes here and there where the docs say that attempts to serialize will fail (this requires, eg, a writeObject method that throws an exception). Otherwise, if a class is serializable, we need to be compatible, which means declaring this field. I.e., yes :-) Tom
