Joe, > Classes with only private constructors, like j.u.Objects, are effectively > final. Adding final is harmless but unnecessary in these cases.
Understood, but the keyword (pun) here is "effectively". Why let a developer wait until runtime to find out his code will fail? At least by marking the class as final, anybody who wishes to subclass it will receive a compiler error. Rain on the parade early :-) Anyway, thanks for considering it in the next round. Paul
