Should DOMImplementationRegistry.PROPERTY be final?

It strikes me that the DOMImplementationRegistry.PROPERTY field used to 
located source lists for Java bootstrapping should probably be a 
constant; that is, that client code should not be allowed to change this 
field. This would be achieved by marking it final like this:

  public final static String PROPERTY = "org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementationSourceList";


Is there any plausible use-case for changing this value at runtime?

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Received on Wednesday, 5 June 2002 11:22:16 UTC