I am looking for a review and a sponsor for this fix. The issue is about an empty array of descriptors being written as a part of the serialization process but not read when deserializing an MBeanInfo/MBeanFeatureInfo instance. While the current ObjectInputStream skips all unread custom written fields it is not a behaviour required by the specification and may cause problems.
The patch makes the array to be read in all cases - even when it is known to be an empty one. That way all that has been written as a part of serialization is read back. The webrev with the fix and test is available @ https://github.com/jbachorik/openjdk-patches/tree/master/webrevs/JDK-6783290 -JB-
