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

Lincoln Baxter, III lincolnbaxter at gmail.com
Wed May 29 12:16:02 EDT 2013


Is this something that you think we should be doing by default?


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:

> Adding forge-dev
>
> 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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