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Add sealed modifier to java.awt.MultipleGradientPaint

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      JDK 17 delivered JEP 409: Sealed Classes : https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409
      As well as being used for future classes this can be retrofitted to
      suitable existing API classes where provably there can be no application
      sub-classes since there are no public or protected constructors and
      at least one package access constructor

      A scan for these has identified various classes in the desktop module as candidates
      Some of these turn out to have no subclasses and these should be marked final instead
      of sealed.

      Not all classes that can be sealed may be worth the effort or seem appropriate
      They maybe classes that simply happen to have a limited set of subclasses
      currently defined but have no natural set, and absence of public and protected constructors
      already is sufficient.
      Or they may have internal platform-specific sub-classes which require special treatment
      That is, a sealed class must declare which classes it permits to sub-class, and those
      classes must be accessible at compile time. A platform-specific subclass will not
      be present except on that platform so the code will fail to compile on other platforms.
      Solutions would either be to move the platform class to shared code - not always
      appropriate, or to introduce a shared subclass which is un-sealed but otherwise
      unchanged and then have the platform classes extend that.

      These are possible of course, but it maybe a question of whether it is worth it.

      java.awt.MultipleGradientPaint has been identified as a candidate to be sealed

            prr Philip Race
            prr Philip Race
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