My use-case: I build an EAR using Maven 2 and the Sun SDK 1.4.2. For testing I tend to run a few JUnit tests from Eclipse. These tests typically invoke some remote beans on the application server. This gives me the dreaded InvalidClassException because the local serialVersionUID differs from the remote serialVersionUID.
Evalution: I think most of us dealing with RMI have encountered this problem before. It is known that different compilers generate different serialVersionUIDs for the same class. In my case the remote classes are generated with the Sun JavaC while the local classes are generated by Eclipse JDT. Plan: Although this problem is not actually a Maven 2 issue, I was thinking Maven 2 could assist in the solution to the problem. The maven-compiler-plugin has a compilerId setting which seems to indicate it can be reconfigured to use another compiler. Would it be possible for M2 to use the Eclipse compiler so that the artifacts will have the same serialVersionUID as in Eclipse? If so, how would I go about this? P.S. I know I can manually add serialVersionUIDs to serializable classes, but this is not an option as most of my serializable classes are value objects generated by XDoclet. XDoclet does not have a way of specifying serialVersionUID for generated value objects.
