I use serialized classes in java, and in these classes I need to specify serialVersionUID with some long number that needs to be initialized. Default required
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
Or else I can initialize the same with another long number, for example, as below:
private static final long serialVersionUID = 5561040348988016571L;
some very large number.
My question is: does it really matter what value we initialize for serialVersionUID or not?
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