I agree with the very first comment to the message posted on theserverside.com. But I also agree Chris's comment
- Make all classes, except those intended to be subclasses, as final. Which ones?
This is trickier. You might want to let the API stabilize a bit and see what people actually do subclass before going down this path.
[...] > - Make all classes, except those intended to be subclasses, as final. Which > ones? > - Make classes whose instances don't need to be modified as immutable > (members are final). Be careful. Cf. Michael Feathers: It's time to deprecate final <http://blogs.objectmentor.com/ArticleS.MichaelFeathers.ItsTimeToDeprecateFinal> <http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40660> Best regards, Lars -- http://www.semagia.com
