I don't think that it is bug in specs. The spec 1.5 for SecretKey interface reads: "Field: serialVersionUID The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility since J2SE 1.4." Mikhail, what is your opinion?
Regards, Svetlana -----Original Message----- From: Geir Magnusson Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:18 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-233) private serialVersionID field should be set in javax.security.auth.kerberos.KerberosKey class This sounds like a bug in the *spec*, because it means that theoretically, there is 1.4 code that won't compile under 1.5 due to reasons other than collision w/ language changes and 1.4 binary wouldn't run. Right? geir Svetlana Samoilenko (JIRA) wrote: > private serialVersionID field should be set in javax.security.auth.kerberos.KerberosKey class > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- > > Key: HARMONY-233 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-233 > Project: Harmony > Type: Bug > Components: Classlib > Reporter: Svetlana Samoilenko > > > According to J2SE 1.4 specifications javax.security.auth.kerberos.KerberosKey class has > public serialVersionUID field (it implements SecretKey interface that inherited this field from java.security.Key interface where the field is public). > But according J2SE 1.5 specification this field in Key interface is not public, so class KerberosKey should have private serialVersionID field. > > The same problem is for javax.cripto.spec.SecretKeySpec class. >
