Lucene has always had way too much use of final for my taste. I have often had to resort of chicanery to get around this.
In many cases, there wasn't even an alternative abstract class. Writing test cases involving IndexWriters was a case that sticks in my memory. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think thats true - but its also interesting to note: LowerCaseFilter > has been final since it was put into svn in 01. > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
