In response to my recent blog posting Immutable Java Objects, Matt brought up a good point of discussion related to making Java classes truly immutable by declaring them as final so that they ...

Static classes in Java. In Classes and objects in Java, you learned how to declare static fields and static methods as members of a class, and in Class and object initialization in Java, you ...

Java does enable the option to mark a class as final to eliminate the ability to perform inheritance complete, but that is often too heavy of a hammer to drop. Marking a class as final prevents all ...

Difference between static and final in Java. While static variables use memory very efficiently, a static variable is not constant. It can be changed at any time. Imagine that you want a constant that ...