Description
The class org.apache.cxf.management.interceptor.AbstractMessageResponseTimeInterceptor has several protected methods, indicating a desire to allow extension; however, the class cannot be extended by a class outside the package org.apache.cxf.management.interceptor, because it has an explicit constructor with no scope modifier (and thus is accessible only within the package).
Presumably, this was an oversight, and the constructor should be protected, allowing clients of the API to extend the class.
Otherwise, the protected modifier should be removed from the methods within the class, since it is meaningless, and consideration should be given to making the class non-public, since it will be unusable by anything but CXF internals (this would depend on the existing package structure of CXF, with which I am not familiar).