Description Lukasz Skowronski 2004-08-05 11:53:43 EDT

Here are two simple classes which present incompatibility between Sun and 
eclipse compilers.


public class SerializationTest implements Serializable {
 private void dummy() {
  Class c = String.class;
 }
}


public class Test {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
  Class c = SerializationTest.class;
  ObjectStreamClass osc = ObjectStreamClass.lookup(c);
  System.out.println("serialVersionUID for " + c + " is " +
osc.getSerialVersionUID());
 }
}

These classes compiled with Sun compiler produce other result than when 
compiled with eclipse compiler.
I suppose the reason of this behavior is that both compilers create static 
variable of Class type but
1. Sun calls it class$java$lang$String
2. eclipse calls it class$0
3. Sun also creates a method with "static Class class$(String s)" signature

Regards
Luke