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A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) to prepare to make final mean final in Java would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. The warnings would prepare Java developers for a ...

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Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

Spotbugs 4.5.0 yields a warning for MC_OVERRIDABLE_METHOD_CALL_IN_CONSTRUCTOR when calling an inherited method from the constructor in a final class. But the method cannot be overridden by a subclass ...

There appears to be a unit test in JRuby 9.2 that passes with OpenJDK11, but when I try to use a java Stream from Jruby I get Illegal Access errors on the final methods? I see similar errors in specs ...