I don't know much about it ... but would something like Terracotta use/require/leverage the serialVersionUID for something not so obvious in normal, singly homed deployments?
I think I understand that it helps confirm or explicitly 'version' components that might be working together or across, say, JVM boundaries - but it seems like, if not explicitly provided, a default value is built automatically and, unless I want an older version to work with a newer version, I am fine just letting that happen. In fact, unless I am really abiding by serialVersionUID rules (changing it explicitly - every time I make a relevant, corresponding change to the containing class) - I'm not really gaining any functionality that the runtime can't already do. In fact, unless rigorously maintained, it seems I could likely end up with two different compiled versions with identical, explicit serialVersionUIDs - which surely seems worse then leaving it alone? -Luther On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes < adrian...@uol.com.br> wrote: > Brill Pappin wrote: > >> Actually i don't think a missing one will cause that to fail unless there >> are a lot of incompatible changes. >> > Just one incompatible change of class stored in the session and it will not > be deserialized. > > >> However... even if it does matter, *in no way* should anyone depend on a >> serialized session to store data.... if your app can't recover from a clean >> session, you have bigger problems than not adding a serialVersionId. >> > Hum? What about stateful pages, which is the Wicket "market"? > > If you can control your serial IDs, you have the chance of write custom > deserializers. That does not means you can't with an absent ID, but AFAIU > just the inclusion of one field and it will change making the > deserialization fail. > > > > Adriano > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > >
