On 04/11/2014 11:22 PM, Mike Duigou wrote: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035284 > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8035284/0/webrev/
This! Thumbs up. > Redundant null initializations in other components/packages will be handled > in separate issues. I also remember seeing cases where the field initializers basically dubbed the constructor (I think it was in JAXB/P). Not sure if you can find these automatically. -Aleksey.