The Java Language Specification documents the serialization protocol
implemented by this change set:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/platform/serialization/spec/protocol.html#10258
This change is intended to make it easier to use Avian VM as a drop-in
replacement for the Oracle JVM when serializing objects.
The previous serialization code is still available as
avian.LegacyObjectInputStream.
This commit only implements the non-object parts of the deserialization
specification.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Previously, I used a shell script to extract modification date ranges
from the Git history, but that was complicated and unreliable, so now
every file just gets the same year range in its copyright header. If
someone needs to know when a specific file was modified and by whom,
they can look at the Git history themselves; no need to include it
redundantly in the header.
