8026344: j.u.c.a *Adder and *Accumulator extend a package private class that is Serializable

[Alan Bateman]

On 23/10/2013 15:32, roger riggs wrote:
> :
>
> The signature of the readObject methods usually has the return type 
> Object
> even though in this case it should never be used. And a method comment 
> would be nice
> saying why it always throws an exception.
I checked Serializable and it defines readObject's return type as void. 
We could add a javadoc comment if needed but the @throws should be 
sufficient for testing.

>
> I might have been tempted to conserve on classes and code duplication to
> share a serialization proxy between the classes and maybe even shorten 
> the name.
> But it is hard to argue with the simplicity and directness of this 
> design.
I don't have a strong opinion on this, it could be something really like 
short (if Doug is inclined).

-Alan.