Re: [cp-patches] FYI: Bumped up serialVersionUIDs in javax.swing

[Roman Kennke]

Am Samstag, den 28.05.2005, 13:46 +0100 schrieb Andrew John Hughes:
> On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 09:24 +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:09:00AM +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 23:14 +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I updated all serialVersionUIDs in the javax.swing package to be
> > > > compatible with JDK1.4.

> > We had decided in the past to ignore this stuff in Swing.
> > 
> I agree to an extent as these change rapidly.  But I also think the
> presence of models in the Swing classes make this less black and white
> than this implies.  I imagine its reasonable to suggest supporting RMI
> (which requires serialization) for e.g. the SpinnerDateModel, but I
> don't see why we need it for the components (perhaps someone wants to
> enlighten me?)

I know at least one application that serves GUI components via RMI. For
instance the JCP platform from Netmodule
(http://www.netmodule.com/d/produkte/jpc.asp) does something like this.

/Roman