Hi Rob, It prevents developer from inadvertently overriding it and breaking the Filter contract (beforeHandle -> doHandle -> afterHandle) and ensures a consistent behavior for all filters.
Otherwise, it is always possible to inherit from Restlet and implement something different if this is blocking for a given use case. Best regards, Jerome 2008/1/10, Rob Heittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Jerome, > > What's the advantage of Filter.handle being final? > > - R > >
