Class Now Final

The final modifier is added to the declaration of a library class.

Example

The final modifier is added to the declaration of the Person class in the library project.

-public class Person { }
+public final class Person { }

Broken Uses

Hereafter, we list the broken uses that are currently detected by Maracas.

• 1. Regular and anonymous classes extending the now-final class

1. Regular and anonymous classes extending the now-final class

Example

The Employee class—defined in a client project—extends the class Person. Then, a broken use is reported pointing to the Employee class declaration as it cannot extend the Person class anymore.

// Broken use reported here
public class Employee extends Person {
  
}