[p2t2p]

I _hate_ smart asses that do "everything final by default". It all fun and giggles until I can't mock some stupid class in some stupid library that I have no choice but to use just because someone is high on "inheritance is bad" hype. Instead of normal mocking/stubbing I now have to use stuff like PowerMock which does byte code hacking just so I can have a test.

How about you stop making decisions for me and let _me_ decide whether I want to inherit your class or not.

[andrekandre]

  > I can't mock some stupid class in some stupid library that I have no choice but to use just because someone is high on "inheritance is bad" hype.

yea, at the very least, classes public members should be more like interfaces, that way mocking can be done easily in test mode, then in prod build lots of optimizations could "dissolve" the interface and be statically dispatched etc... hmmm....