RFR: 8028041 Serialized Form description of j.l.String is not consistent with the implementation

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Nov 8 21:34:32 UTC 2013


On 08/11/2013 20:56, roger riggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review this correction to the documentation of the serialized 
> form of String.
> There is no change to the specification or behavior of the 
> serialization of strings.
>
> It seemed safer to refer to the serialization specification and remove 
> the
> incorrect details instead of trying to correct the incorrect details 
> by adding more detail.
>
> Webrev:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-string-serial-8028041/
It make sense to reference the spec rather than duplicate how long 
strings are handled. So looks good to me (assuming the link works as 
expected when the docs are generated).

-Alan.



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