override java final methods via reflection or other means?

Question

This question arise while trying to write test cases. Foo is a class within the framework library which I dont have source access to.

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Answer 1

Seb is correct, and just to ensure that you get an answer to your question, short of doing something in native code (and I am pretty sure that would not work) or modifying the bytecode of the class at runtime, and creating the class that overrides the method at runtime, I cannot see a way to alter the "finalness" of a method. Reflection will not help you here.