It should not, but I can tell you what is happening. When the class is compiled with debug, JBuilder generates code to initialize member variables that are initialized to compile-time constants. This affects the Serialization Version UID for the class, since it creates a static initializer block. This will only occur for classes where all of the static final variables are initialized with compile-time constants.

I have a work-around that will eliminate the problem for you. If you create a static, non-final variable with an initializer, it should always create the static initializer, so the Serialization Version UID will be the same whether or not you compile with debug information. For example, add the the following to your class.

    private static int DUMMY = 1;

The other thing you can do is to explicitly specify the Serialization Version UID for the class. Although I am not that familiar with the issues concerning serialization in CORBA, doing this is critical when you store serialized versions of classes and may need to deserialize them with a modified version of the class.
2001-Jan-19 1:53pm gyles19@visi.com

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