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Re: Usefulness of "final"

From Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Usefulness of "final"
Date 2013-04-04 14:45 +0200
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 01:55:43 -0700 (PDT), paul.cager@gmail.com wrote:

> Interestingly, is "ThisIsImmutable" immutable given you can do this?

>  public class NowItIsnt extends ThisIsImmutable {
>    public String getCantChangeMe() {
>      return Integer.toString(new Random().nextInt());
>    }
>  }

> Of course you could make ThisIsImmutable final.

I faced the same question (whether or not to make my example final)
elsethread, but in the end, with Reflection and such, you really aren't
protected against someone trying to intentionally make something mutable.
Between cloning, deserializing, using Reflection to outright remove final
decorations, and the good old brute force method of changing the source
(and you can even override the JCL if you put things in java* packages),
there's a lot of ways to 'break' things if you wanted to.

Writing a super defensive class to protect against all that didn't seem
worth the trouble to make the point we tried to make.

Liebe Gruesse,
		Joerg

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          Re: Inserting In a List Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-04-03 02:04 +0200
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                Re: Inserting In a List Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-04-02 21:29 -0400
                Re: Inserting In a List Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-04-04 14:07 +0200
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                Re: Inserting In a List Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-04-04 00:54 +0200
                Re: Inserting In a List Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-04-03 20:30 -0300
                Re: Inserting In a List Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-04-04 01:35 +0200
                Re: Inserting In a List Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-04-03 20:55 -0300
                Re: Inserting In a List Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-04-04 02:00 +0200
                Re: Inserting In a List Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-04-03 19:49 -0400
            Re: Inserting In a List Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-04-03 22:43 +0000
              Re: Inserting In a List Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-04-04 01:08 +0200
                Re: Inserting In a List Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-04-04 00:42 +0000
                Re: Inserting In a List Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-04-04 14:12 +0200
                Re: Inserting In a List Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-04-04 21:47 +0000
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  Re: Inserting In a List Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-04-02 14:35 +0200
    Re: Inserting In a List lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-04-02 15:08 +0100
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        Re: Usefulness of "final" (Was: Re: Inserting In a List) lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-04-03 11:15 +0100
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                Re: Usefulness of "final" (Was: Re: Inserting In a List) Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-04-04 18:49 -0700
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