Yeah, that's what I meant in my earlier post. It keeps the serial format compatible with little impact on performance in this case.
On 15/01/2013, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipi...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 01/15/2013 02:58 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote: >> serialPersistentFields is really quite simple, and will help avoid >> any potential issues like this in the future. I can help implement >> this on top of your patch if you like. > > Oh, please go ahead. That's the learning opportunity for me (never used > sPF before, ready to learn from masters). > > -Aleksey. > -- Dr Heinz M. Kabutz (PhD CompSci) Author of "The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter" Sun Java Champion IEEE Certified Software Development Professional http://www.javaspecialists.eu Tel: +30 69 75 595 262 Skype: kabutz