Hi Bauke,
Just to make sure, does it generate one, or does it make the hidden 
auto-generated one visible?
Thanks!
Manfred
On 1/30/15, 7:35 AM, Bauke Scholtz wrote:
> Eclipse can take care of this in only a few clicks.
>
> The affected classes are outlined in the following commits:
> javax.faces.*: 
> https://github.com/omnifaces/mojarra/commit/7c8edf6ddd63d92f34ff00014d7cf9e92372894b
> com.sun.faces.*: 
> https://github.com/omnifaces/mojarra/commit/8294362d8cede72546804d85344bdae745beee88
>
> Cheers, B
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:14 PM, <edward.burns_at_oracle.com 
> <mailto:edward.burns_at_oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Volunteers,
>
>     A busywork task has emerged that is best addressed in a comprehensive
>     matter spanning the spec and Mojarra implementation classes.  Briefly,
>     we have been inconsistent in our application of serialVersionUID, and
>     the time has come to be consistent.  I'm going to try to leverage the
>     Adopt-a-JSR program to do this work.  To that end, I have written up
>     the
>     task on our Adopt-a-JSR tab at < https://jcp.org/en/egc/view?id=372 >.
>     Here is the relevant text:
>
>       We have inconsistently applied the serialVersionUID class
>     variable to
>       spec and impl of JSF in Mojarra. The community could really help by
>       filing JIRAs and submitting patches against them. This is pretty
>     much
>       busywork, but is very necessary. This work could proceed in several
>       phases:
>
>       Identify which classes need to be touched. Technically only those
>       classes that will be serialized need have a serialVersionUID. With
>       JSF, this is actually a lot of classes because of the
>     statefulness of
>       JSF and the support for clustering.
>
>       File JIRAs for the work. I suggest the JIRAs be filed per Java
>       package. The Mojarra JIRA <
>     https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES > must be used here,
>     even
>       though there is a spec impact. Once the task gets rolling, the spec
>       leads will file an appropriate spec JIRA.  Here is the list of Java
>       classes in the spec and Mojarra impl.
>
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/application
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/bean
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/component
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/component/behavior
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/component/html
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/component/visit
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/context
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/convert
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/el
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/event
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/flow
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/flow/builder
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/lifecycle
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/model
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/render
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/validator
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/view
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/view/facelets
>         jsf-api/src/main/java/javax/faces/webapp
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/action
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/application
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/application/annotation
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/application/resource
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/application/view
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/component
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/component/behavior
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/component/validator
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/component/visit
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/config
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/config/configprovider
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/config/processor
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/context
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/context/flash
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/el
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/ext
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/ext/component
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/ext/render
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/ext/taglib
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/ext/validator
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/compiler
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/component
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/el
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/impl
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/tag
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/tag/composite
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/tag/jsf
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/tag/jsf/core
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/tag/jsf/html
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/tag/jstl
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/tag/jstl/core
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/tag/jstl/fn
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/tag/ui
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/facelets/util
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/flow
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/flow/builder
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/io
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/lifecycle
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/mgbean
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/renderkit
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/renderkit/html_basic
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/scripting
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/scripting/groovy
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/spi
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/taglib
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/taglib/html_basic
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/taglib/jsf_core
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/util
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/util/cdi11
>         jsf-ri/src/main/java/com/sun/faces/vendor
>
>     Please help with this task if you can.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Ed
>
>