From 28e402bc762369cdbea7accf0eb2c5e16818fe14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yun <cheese10yun@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 02:43:40 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent instantiation of AnnotatedElementUtils

Closes gh-1848
---
 .../springframework/core/annotation/AnnotatedElementUtils.java  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/annotation/AnnotatedElementUtils.java b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/annotation/AnnotatedElementUtils.java
index 9e86e3f464..29252fa3ca 100644
--- a/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/annotation/AnnotatedElementUtils.java
+++ b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/annotation/AnnotatedElementUtils.java
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ import org.springframework.util.MultiValueMap;
  * @see AnnotationUtils
  * @see BridgeMethodResolver
  */
-public class AnnotatedElementUtils {
+public abstract class AnnotatedElementUtils {
 
 	/**
 	 * {@code null} constant used to denote that the search algorithm should continue.