How do I use the @serial javadoc tag?
Created May 4, 2012
Tim Rohaly
If this serializable field has been
added since the initial version of the class, the @since tag should also
be used to help document the version changes in the serialized form.
The @serial javadoc tag is used to document the meaning and acceptable values of serialized fields. It appears in a javadoc comment just prior to a field declaration, and is followed by a free-form field description, which may span more than one line. In the standard javadoc output, this information is displayed only in the "Serialized Form" page for that class.