It's a way for the compiler to keep track of binary compatibility. They have the same thing in COM. If you've ever looked in the windows registry, you'll see tons of GUIDS that are doing the same thing.
OK, so I used to program in VB. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:37:24 -0400 >From: Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [proposal] serialVersionUID? >To: MyFaces Development <dev@myfaces.apache.org> > >Just out of curiosity, why does Eclipse require/desire this? I've >only used this with client server applications. > >sean > >On 7/22/05, Bill Dudney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> As I'm going through the code I'm adding serialVersionUID's to the >> classes that don't have it but should (according to Eclipse's warning >> about such things). >> >> Just wanted to make sure that was not a controversial topic :-) >> >> TTFN, >> >> -bd- >> Dennis Byrne
