[forge-dev] Is serialVersionUID still required in Java 7/Java EE6 world?

[Pete Muir]

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The approach we took in the quickstarts was to add @SuppressWarnings("serial") in this case, as it adds a visual warning to the class that you haven't taken this step, without the annoying warning in the IDE. We also try to add a comment to the effect you need to do this before you go into production.

On 23 May 2013, at 23:44, Max Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 03:40:42PM -0400, Burr Sutter wrote:
>> Lots of warnings when Forge generates a JPA entity
>> 
>> "The serializable class Actor does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long"
> 
> we can disable the warninng in JBDS I believe.
> 
> It is eclipse being anal - they are correct in that you should add such field, but if you do then
> you are declaring you are guaranteeing serializability between versions of your class which generated code
> cannot guarantee nor does any user need this.
> 
> I've written about it in blogs and wikis - I can digg them out if you want the glory details :)
> 
> /max
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