On Feb 20, 2014, at 12:13 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: > Are you sure there isn't any serialization impact? Zeros has also meant these > are uninitialized so I just wonder about deserializing on an older JDK.
I tested the following: 1) serialize with 9, deserialize with 7 2) serialize with 7, deserialize with 9 and observed no errors unless of course my test was incorrect. Thanks, Brian