In my previous blog post, I blogged on the “code too large” problem and reproduced that error message. In this post, I look at the very similar “too many ...

Suppose you have a simple class called Constants as defined below. Constants.java – First Version package dustin.examples.puzzlers; /** * The main purpose of this class is to demonstrate the ...

Anyone who sees the const keyword in Java would logically assume its original intention was to define a constant value. That assumption isn’t too far off the mark. Both C and C++ use the const keyword ...

Ever wonder why Java's const keyword is unimplemented? More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The ...

He pointed at a line in one of my programs where the number 12 appeared and said, "I thought I told you never to use constants!" In my defense, I replied that this 12 represented the number of months ...