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vips7L 21 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: JVM Anatomy Quarks

In my experience I don’t see many people use final classes. Mostly just final fields.

erik_seaberg 21 days ago [–]

The only final classes I can remember are stuff like java.lang.String, which needed to be immutable so a SecurityManager could consume them for policy decisions.

vips7L 21 days ago | [–]

Good thing the security manager is deprecated for removal!

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