On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 19:58:33 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <hann...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a doc-only change to add missing `@serial` javadoc tags in 
> module `java.desktop`. This is a sub-task of [JDK-8286931] to allow us to 
> re-enable the javadoc `-serialwarn` option in the JDK doc build, which has 
> been disabled since JDK 19.
> 
> [JDK-8286931]: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8286931
> 
> For private and package-private serialized fields that already have a doc 
> comment, the main description is converted to a block tag by prepending 
> `@serial` since these fields do not require a main description. For protected 
> and public serialized fields that require a main description, an empty 
> `@serial` block tag is appended to the doc comment instead. The effect is the 
> same, as the main description is used in `serial-form.html` if the `@serial` 
> tag is missing or empty. For those fields that do not have a doc comment, a 
> doc comment with an empty `@serial` tag is added. 
> 
> This change has no effect on the generated documentation (apart from muting 
> the warnings for missing `@serial` tags when building documentation with 
> `-serialwarn` enabled).

I did check that even without these tags, the comments appear in the 
serialisation spec, so this is really just a source clean up.

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Marked as reviewed by prr (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22979#pullrequestreview-2540950460

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