DiskMarker doesn’t have serialVersionUID

Type: Bug
Status: New
Priority: 2 Major
Resolution:
Component/s: ehcache-core
Labels:

Assignee: ljacomet
Reporter: cameleec
Created: September 23, 2014
Votes: 0
Watchers: 2
Updated:
October 01, 2014
Resolved:

Attachments

cameleec (39.00 k) text/x-patch different_versions_of_java_compiler_serialVersionUID.patch

Description

In general DiskMarker doesn’t have serialVersionUID but it’s implements Serializable interface. If you are using diskStore configuration in your ehcache.xml it’s easy to have IncompatibleClassException when you have one machine for testing different java compiled versions. According to Serializable interface Java-doc its “strongly recommended” to have this field.

Comments

Louis Jacomet Jacomet 2014-10-01

Can you provide more details on which JVM combinations you are using that cause this issue? Are you using a binary release of Ehcache or compiling one yourself?

The generated serialVersionUID should be stable for a given binary version according to: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/platform/serialization/spec/class.html#4100

Konrad Dobrzynski 2014-10-01

I had Java Hotspot 1.7.0_65 and 1.8.0_20 versions. I was using binary one from Maven Central. If you used 1.8 to compile as Java 7 and then tried to run it on development environment with older java (1.7.0_65) you will recieve IncompatibleClassException when you having your application with disk storage.