title: Finding serialVersionUID of serialized object
body: <p>Is there a way to determine the generated <code>serialVersionUID</code> of a serialized Java object?</p>
  
  <p>The problem is that I serialized an object without explicitely specifying the <code>serialVersionUID</code>. Now the deserialization process complains about class incompatibilities. However I didn't change the class in a way which would make it incompatible. So I assume that it is enough to specify the <code>serialVersionUID</code> in the class as it is stored in the object data. In order to do this I need to read the <code>serialVersionUID</code> from the serialized data.</p>