Re: classpath ./ChangeLog java/lang/reflect/Proxy.j...

[Michael Koch]

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Am Montag, 23. Dezember 2002 15:07 schrieb Eric Blake:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> > CVSROOT:    /cvsroot/classpath
> > Module name:        classpath
> > Changes by: Michael Koch <address@hidden>   02/12/23 03:30:29
> >
> >     * java/lang/reflect/Proxy.java
> >     (h): This member was never final in any jdk release.
>
> I'm not sure this change needed to be made.  The field h is not
> publically accessible - it is protected within Proxy, user code
> should not extend Proxy directly, and internally created proxy
> classes never change the value of h.  I thought making it final
> (like we made Integer.value final) provided more security from bad
> reflection code.

Then I wonder why SUN made it non-final ...

Integer.value is private and not in the offial API but Proxy.h is 
(because its protected). We should make our implementation 100% 
compatible. At least thats a goal.


Michael
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