Description Mike Bowler 2003-02-11 07:52:51 EST

The latest milestone build has a compiler option to warn about "unused private 
types fields and methods".  This is warning about all the declarations of 
serialVersionUID which is the version id for serialization.  This field *is* 
used even though it isn't directly referenced by any java code.  This is one of 
the quirks of serialization.

The compiler should not be warning about serialVersionUID not being used.  For 
the same reason, it should not be warning about the methods readResolve() and 
writeReplace() that are also used by serialization and are often marked as 
private.