Make not yet final core/contrib TokenStream/Filter implementations final
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                 Key: LUCENE-1753
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1753
             Project: Lucene - Java
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: Analysis
            Reporter: Uwe Schindler
             Fix For: 3.0


Lucene's analysis package is designed in a way, that you can plug different 
*implementations* of analysis in chains of TokenStreams and TokenFilters. An 
analyzer is build of several TokenStreams/Filters that do the tokenization of 
text. If you want to modify the behaviour of tokenization, you implement a new 
subclass of TokenStream/-Filter/Tokenizer.

Most classes in the core are correctly implemented like that. They are itsself 
final or their implementation methods are final (CharTokenizer).

A lot of problems with backwards-compatibility of LUCENE-1693 are some classes 
in Lucene's core/contrib not yet final:
- KeywordTokenizer should be declared final or its implementation methods 
should be final
- StandardTokenizer should be declared final or its implementation methods 
should be final
- ISOLatin1Filter is deprecated, so it will be removed in 3.0, nothing to do.

CharTokenizer is the abstract base class of several other classes. The design 
is correct: Child classes cannot override the implementation, they can only 
change the behaviour of this final implementation.

Contrib should be checked, that all implementation classes are at least final 
or they are designed in the same way like CharTokenizer.

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