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		blasdel on Nov 13, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Bowls a Googly - Possible invalidation of O... They were probably listed in that order in the documentation, and the javadocs are generated from the source. It'd be more suspect if they were in a different order, especially if they were ordered as if they were in a hashtable that was iterated over.

confuzatron on Nov 14, 2010 [–]

Interesting but unconvincing theory. I have never seen public API documentation that lists private fields before. This certainly makes no mention of private fields: http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/sun/security/provider/certpat...

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