At 05:32 PM 10/3/98 +0100, Stuart Ballard wrote:
>~ Adding a package-private superclass in between a class and its specced
> superclass (for cases where code can be reused)?
Would this affect serialization? If it breaks serialization we're probably
in trouble. IMO the whole serialization spec stinks, and it's really a
killer blow to us trying to write code that's better than Sun's (and the
clueless goons they hired to write java.text, don't get me started...).
While I think a 100% compatible implementation of java.* is important (and
hence I'm working on this project), it's too bad we can't just do gnu.*
(i.e. not use the existing API, just the java language) and do it right. :-)
Wes
