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How do I handle versioning of my Externalizable classes? Do I have to write a version number to the stream?

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How do I handle versioning of my Externalizable classes? Do I have to write a version number to the stream?

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Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=30732 Created: Mar 31, 2000 Modified: 2000-03-31 14:01:00.132 Author: Tim Rohaly (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=10) Just as with classes that implement Serializable, the serialVersionUID field is checked when reading in Externalizable objects via an ObjectInputStream. If serialVersionUID is not explicitly defined in your Externalizable class, then one will be computed for you upon deserialization. See the FAQ at http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/view.jsp?EID=5063 for more details.