Good point. I think TIFFIFD needs to be a subclass therefore lets leave TIFFDirectory as is.
Thanks, Brian On Oct 3, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Phil Race <philip.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Question is whether TIFFDirectory might be made final as well. > > com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFIFD extends TIFFDirectory so that > is more than a case of marking it final. > Therefore it at least depends on whether you think that internal subclass > really needs to be a subclass ?