The purpose of the *public* static final long serialVersionUID is for long term storage or situations where you may potentially have made modifications to the class that make it incompatible with previous versions (distributed apps/clustering). I'd say that its easier to just add it in case you ever need it, its only 1 line of code.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You don't need a serialVersionUID for serialization to work (and > > certainly not a unique one, or your plan for using 1L wouldn't very > > well). > > > > Thanks. > > -Luther >
