RFR: JDK-8286348: incorrect use of `@serial`

[Phil Race]

On Sat, 7 May 2022 01:04:03 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a fix to remove incorrect use of the `@serial` tag from the doc comments for methods such as `readObject` and `readResolve`. The tag has no effect in this position other than to trigger warnings from the standard doclet when running javadoc.
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> There is no change to the generated documentation as a result off this change. In particular, there is no change to the API docs for any of the modified files, or to the overall top-level serialized-form.html file.
> 
> Although most of the affected files are in the `java.desktop` module, there is one outlier, in `java.security.Provider`.

Jon, all of the changes in java.desktop are already underway in https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/8432/files and
have been approved and even have an approved CSR ..  just waiting for @alisenchung to type /integrate ..

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8586