Can I use an arbitrary long value for serialVersionUID when I declare it in my class?
Created May 4, 2012
Tim Rohaly 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.