[offtopic] RE: [jdom-interest] Text class

Sun May 27 08:14:07 PDT 2001

At 6:49 PM -0700 5/26/01, Tom Bradford wrote:
>Matthew Mackenzie wrote:
>>  Forgive me if this is terribly naive, but does any one know why
>>  java.lang.String* are final?
>

Thread safety, security, and performance. Not all of these reasons 
still make sense in Java 1.4, but the decisions were made with 
respect to Java 1.0.
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