Make Java runtime ignore serialVersionUIDs?

Question

I have to work with a large number of compiled Java classes which didn\'t explicitly specify a serialVersionUID. Because their UIDs were arbitrarily generated by the compile

Answer 1

How impractical is this to fix ? If you have the source and can rebuild, can you not just run a script over the entire codebase to insert a

private long serialVersionUID = 1L;

everywhere ?