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Failure to provide a consistent serialization mechanism across releases can limit the extensibility of classes. If classes are extended, compatibility issues may result.

Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

SER00-J

Low

Probable

High

P2

L3

Automated Detection

Automated detection of classes that use the default serialized form is straightforward.

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JAVA.CLASS.SER.UIDM

Missing Serial Version Field (Java)

Parasoft Jtest

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CERT.SER00.DUIDCreate a 'serialVersionUID' for all 'Serializable' classes
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S2057
Implemented

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Related Guidelines

MITRE CWE

CWE-589, Call to Non-ubiquitous API

Bibliography

[API 2014]

 


[Bloch 2008]

Item 74, "Implement Serialization Judiciously"

[Harold 2006]

Section 13.7.5, "serialPersistentFields"

[Sun 2006]

Java Object Serialization Specification

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