Re Java final keyword, immutability and reflection

Few days ago, in a conversation ("Sun Certified Java Programmer " group at http://www.linkedin.com/) regarding Immutability pattern and Java Reflection, somebody came with the following code example (slightly adjusted by me in order to highlight the class attributes initialization order), which I found quite interesting and decided to post it.

So, execute the following code:

import java.lang.reflect.Field; 

class Test {
 public Test() {
  doIt();
 }
 public void doIt() {}
}

public class TestReflection extends Test { 
 private final String name = "Immutable";
 private String n = "n";
 public TestReflection() { } 

 public void doIt() {
  System.out.println("1 = " + name); 
  System.out.println(n); 
  System.out.println("-----");
 }

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { 
  TestReflection abc = new TestReflection();
  Class c1 = Class.forName("TestReflection");
  Field field2 = c1.getDeclaredField("name"); 
  field2.setAccessible(true); 

  System.out.println("2 = " + abc.name); 
  field2.set(abc, "Mutable"); 
  System.out.println("3 = " + abc.name); 
 } 
}

Output: 
1 = Immutable
null
-----
2 = Immutable
3 = Immutable

And the following version of the code:

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

class Test {
 public Test() {
  doIt();
 }
 public void doIt() {}
}
public class TestReflection extends Test { 
 private final String name; 
 private String n = "n";

 public TestReflection() { 
  name = "Immutable"; 
 } 

 public void doIt() {
  System.out.println("1 = " + name); 
  System.out.println(n); 
  System.out.println("-----");
 }

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { 
  TestReflection abc = new TestReflection();
  Class c1 = Class.forName("TestReflection"); 
  Field field2 = c1.getDeclaredField("name"); 

  field2.setAccessible(true); 
  System.out.println("2 = " + abc.name); 
  field2.set(abc, "Mutable"); 
  System.out.println("3 = " + abc.name); 
 } 
}

Output: 
1 = null
null
-----
2 = Immutable
3 = Mutable

The answer to this behaviour can be found in JLS (http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/j3TOC.html), section 17.5.3,

"Even then, there are a number of complications. If a final field is initialized to a compile-time constant in the field declaration, changes to the final field may not be observed, since uses of that final field are replaced at compile time with the compile-time constant. "