How do I handle versioning of my Externalizable classes? Do I have to write a version number to the stream?
Created May 4, 2012
Tim Rohaly 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.