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[jpa-spec users] Re: finality: prohibited for ALL methods of all kinds in entity classes?

From: Laird Nelson <ljnelson_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:01:32 -0800

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Kevin Sutter <sutter_at_us.ibm.com> wrote:

> I don't know all of this history with this, but my guess is that this
> "final" restriction is due to the JPA Providers that monitor persistence
> activities by creating subclasses of the Entity classes. It's not due to
> the bytecode injection since that should still be doable even if the
> classes or methods are marked "final".


Right, duh; of course. Thanks; that explains it.

Best,
Laird
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