Request for Review: Chain more Exceptions (RuntimeException)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Aug 19 21:21:29 UTC 2011


Sebastian Sickelmann wrote:
> OK. We need to change the serialversion. But is this enough? May we 
> break applications out there which serialized 
> NoSuchMechanismExceptions or extended classes? I have compiled it with 
> no explicit serialversionUID and started
> ./serialver javax.xml.crypto.NoSuchMechanismException
> to show the generated serialversionUID. The new is 4170396067457259019L.
>
I don't have time to send a detailed reply on this now but we can't 
change the serialVersionUID.

-Alan.



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