In the post Common Red Flags in Java Development I looked at some practices that are not necessarily wrong or incorrect in and of themselves, but can be indicative of potentially greater problems.

First of all, isn't Java open source*, you ask? Well, yes, kinda, sorta, not 100-percent. Sun did release Java as open source but made a special exception for closed source applications built with it.

In several years of developing, reading, reviewing, and maintaining hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code, I have become accustomed to seeing certain " red flags " in Java code that often ...