Description Kohsuke Kawaguchi 2003-03-25 12:06:05 EST

It is a standard practice to declare the serialVersionUID field as
"private static final".

The current compiler option of "Unused private types, methods or fields" 
flags this an an warning/error, which is bit annoying.

It's nice if the compiler recognizes this case. Or even better, if I can
tell the compiler that certain private fields/methods are intentionally
there (through custom javadoc tag or etc.) such as:

/**
 *
 * @eclipse:used
 */
private static void myMethod() {
   ...
}

(I couldn't think of a good tag name, sorry)