[xwiki-devs] Why are certain Plugin classes final

Hi, I was in a dire need to extended on of the xwiki plugin classes MailSenderPlugin because xwiki implementation does not handle the password authentication to smtp servers that require one. I was unable to do so because the said class is declared final. My only option is to modify the xwiki code itself to make the desired change, but I certainly want to avoid this as I want to use only xwiki binaries to take advantage of future functionality implementation and bug fixes in by xwiki team. So is there any specific reason why these classes were defined as final? Is there anyway I can add such functionalities to xwki plugins without modifying the xwiki source. Thanks Sachin ----- http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/sachin_mittal about me: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Why-are-certain-Plugin-classes-final-tp15891099p15891… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.