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<p>Thanks for all your comments on this! And also thanks Chen for
the information regarding the latest plans for Serialization.</p>
<p>I generally find the JEPs to be a great source of information,
also to understand the rationale for changes and to gain more
insight into the background or history of Java features. Therefore
my main concern with such a non-serious JEP is that it 'taints'
this information source and that this incorrect information is
spread. To someone not familiar with Java Serialization
implementation details and its history, it might not be obvious
that the information in the JEP is made up.<br>
Here are some more cases where this JEP was mentioned and where it
potentially caused confusion:</p>
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<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/1bfg6f/comment/c96cwxd">https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/1bfg6f/comment/c96cwxd</a></li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8mdp1n/comment/dzmzyql">https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8mdp1n/comment/dzmzyql</a><br>
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<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/57463104">https://stackoverflow.com/a/57463104</a><br>
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<p>The problem with such a 'persistent' April Fools joke which is
not revealed / marked as such afterwards is that people might be
reading it at any later point, e.g. now in June. And they might
generally not pay much attention to the publishing date (except
for the year maybe).</p>
<p>At least Chen added a comment to JDK-8046144 now which refers to
this discussion here (thanks for that!).<br>
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