Java - Modifying serialVersionUID of binary serialized object

Question

A few months back I serialized a java.io.Serializable object into a file. Now I need to read the contents, but since then the serialVersionUID has changed, and now I\'m get

Answer 1

It is documented that Serialization is not intended to be used for persisting data. In order to get that data back, you will need to downgrade your version of the JVM to the version that was used to output that data.

For future reference, don't use serialization to persist data between sessions of the JVM.