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Can I use an arbitrary long value for serialVersionUID when I declare it in my class?

April 26, 2017arbitrary class declare serialVersionUID value

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Can I use an arbitrary long value for serialVersionUID when I declare it in my class?

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Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=28715 Created: Mar 26, 2000 Modified: 2000-03-26 15:24:31.6 Author: Tim Rohaly (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=10) Question originally posed by Tim Rohaly PREMIUM (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=10 If you don’t have any previously serialized objects of that class around, you can initialize serialVersionUID to any long value you want. However, if you do have older versions of your class and wish to maintain backward compatibility, you must use the value of serialVersionUID that is determined for you by the serialver command. See http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/view.jsp?EID=5063 for more information on serialver.