On 24 July 2012 09:11, Jörg Schaible <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Elijah, > > Elijah Zupancic wrote: > >> Thanks Jörg! >> >> It sounds like we will need to change them all in chain because we >> have changed the package name. > > Well, since they are all different objects now, the Java runtime will not > try to match them anyway, so it is for this special case not really > required.
+1 > However, if you consider a change, I'd like to propose to use everywhere a > constant that reflects the day of change: > > servialVersionUID = 20120724L; // format YYYYMMDD > > It's easier then to keep track of changes. +0 Ideally the svuid is only changed when necessary. I don't think the id should be updated just because a new method was added, or code was updated. The danger with using the date is that maintainers may update the id whenever the source is updated. > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
