Re: [S2] adding serialVersionUID to actions

[Laurie Harper <la...@holoweb.net>]

Gabriel Belingueres wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any value in adding the serialVersionUID to all our actions?
> My idea is just to add a @SupressWarning("serial") to each action.
> 
> AFAIK, the actions are newly created in each request and are never put
> into session or application scope (by Struts itself at least).
> 
> Any ideas of why the ActionSupport class implements java.io.Serializable?

You're right, S2 actions are generally expected to be request scoped. 
I'm not sure why ActionSupport implements Serializable; it's probably a 
legacy thing. As long as you stick to using request-scoped actions, 
there probably isn't any value in generating serialVersionUIDs or them.

L.


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