Tom Tromey wrote: > It sucks that this isn't well specified. Maybe the only thing to do > is file a bug report with Sun and hope that they respond to it > someday. Bill Pugh has started a related crusade to fix the Java memory model specification: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/jsr.html Take note of 2.5 (g) which addresses final fields. -- Jeff Sturm jeff.sturm@commerceone.com