JAV2I14 — defaultWriteObject clarification

We have recently found an interop problem with another Vendor's orb and wanted some clarification on the customer marshaling format wrt defaultWriteObject. 1.4.10 says:

For serializable objects with a writeObject method:
b. boolean - True if defaultWriteObject was called, false otherwise.

However it is mute on the subject of writeFields and readFields. The Java serialization spec indicates that defaultWriteObject and writeFields are somewhat equivalent, so (a) one could argue that the boolean should be true if writeFields has been called. (b) One could also argue that the spec doesn't say this and so the boolean should be false. My feeling is that (a) is correct (and this is what the other orb does) but that it should be called out explicitly in the spec.

Comments appreciated

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