To ensure backward compatibility, Security components that implement Serializable should have a serialVersionUID. Based on internal testing across a few dozen JVMs, it appears that the ...

定义一个类显示指定 serialVersionUID 的值进行序列化，然后修改 serialVersionUID 的值，再进行反序列化，此时会抛 java.io.InvalidClassException 异常，这证明 serialVersionUID 的版本信息被隐式记录在流中了，但是通过查看序列化后的二进制文件，并没有存储 serialVersionUID 的值。

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I have recently been asked by several different people in several different situations about Java serialization, about the Serializable interface, about serialVersionUID, and about how to generate a ...

If you've ever used serialization in Java, the first thing you probably noticed is how easy it is to code. The second thing you probably noticed is how easy it is to break serialization by changing ...

Q: Does setting the serialVersionUID class field improve Java serialization performance? A: I have heard this performance “tip” from several colleagues and keep running across it in various Java ...