What's the use case of a protected method in a final class in Java?

Question

Consider this code from the official OpenJDK source of java.awt.font.TextLayout:

public final class TextLayout {

    /* ... */

    protected v         


        

Answer 1

Just so it's out there: if this was a class that extended another, the protected method might be extending a protected method in the superclass. Another possible reason to look for.