Re: MessageContext and final static strings

2003-01-09 Thread James M Snell
quot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc bcc Subject Re: MessageContext and final static strings the eclipse doc says that "Making an API field final breaks compatibility with pre-existing binaries that attempt to assign new values to the field.". assuming nobody tried to do this, I think making th

Re: MessageContext and final static strings

2003-01-08 Thread Steve Loughran
the eclipse doc says that "Making an API field final breaks compatibility with pre-existing binaries that attempt to assign new values to the field.". assuming nobody tried to do this, I think making the fields final should be OK. on a related topic, any reason why these bunnies in JWSHandler are

RE: MessageContext and final static strings

2003-01-08 Thread James M Snell
]> 01/08/2003 07:29 AM Please respond to axis-dev To "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc bcc Subject RE: MessageContext and final static strings Make 'em final. How would it break anyone? Do we think that someone is overriding the property na

RE: MessageContext and final static strings

2003-01-08 Thread Tom Jordahl
axis-dev Subject: MessageContext and final static strings MessageContext has a lot of public static strings, but it seems to me that they should be public final static strings, since their target use is the various names of properties. Can we change these to final static strings? Or does every

Re: MessageContext and final static strings

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Loughran
- Original Message - From: "James M Snell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 17:06 Subject: Re: MessageContext and final static strings > Oy ve. I highly doubt changing them to final will break anything, but it &g

Re: MessageContext and final static strings

2003-01-07 Thread James M Snell
v To "axis-dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc bcc Subject MessageContext and final static strings MessageContext has a lot of public static strings, but it seems to me that they should be public final static strings, since their target use is the various names of properties. Can we chang

MessageContext and final static strings

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Loughran
MessageContext has a lot of public static strings, but it seems to me that they should be public final static strings, since their target use is the various names of properties. Can we change these to final static strings? Or does everything out there break? If we cannot change the existing strin