[coolbeans777]

Hey, I was learning Swing via Swing Tutorial Part II earlier http://www.dreaminco...torial-part-ii/, and when I typed line 13 from the first code into eclipse, it said that it didn't contain a static final serialVersionUID field of type long. Why do I need to put this code in and what should I put in for the actual serial number???

[masijade]

It is a number that identifies the "version" of the class. When the server serves an instance of this class to the client, the client checks that it's version matches the version of that from the server to ensure compatability. You do not have to provide one. If you don't the server will generate one, based on the class definition, and the client will also generate one, based on its class definition, and will compare those.

[pbl]

I usually put, as an long: YYMMDDHHMML
It garanties uniqness within my classes and also makes a timestamp of when I wrote the class for the first time
As I do not more than a class per minute the numbers stay unique

[coolbeans777]

Ight, Thanks guys