Comments on: What is serialVersionUID?

By: kalim

kalim — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:05:20 +0000

Great explanation. Thank you

By: Bala

Bala — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:39:17 +0000

Excellent explanation. Thanks mucho!

By: Abuthahir

Abuthahir — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:31:30 +0000

Good One

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:30:39 +0000

Good Post, Liked it! It was helpful.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:58:16 +0000

Very nice article, excellent explanation.

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:36:56 +0000

Hi thanks a lot for the article.

By: anerg sammy

anerg sammy — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:32:10 +0000

Hi..What if we assign 1 to serialVersionUID..Will it affect to the program or not?

In the class, i implemented the Serialization so Im wondering if it matters.Thanks

By: Suresh Prajapati

Suresh Prajapati — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:52:43 +0000

Really well complied artical.

By: Laxman Thapa

Laxman Thapa — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:17:15 +0000

Very informative article and dully explained the role of serialVersionUID.

By: ustamansangat

ustamansangat — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:10:14 +0000

@Kapil Ghodawat
Maybe you should try to write onto DB instead of using serialization.
But if you already have a large number of files that u still want to use with the updated library, maybe java Reflection and a custom class loader could be used. Then u could clone from one version of the class to another. Let me know if you want more info on this (apparently it’s been a year now) at ustamansangat AT live.com
@Reena,
wouldn’t your in.readObject() already fail because the objects were serialized with older class definition?