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 ...

The const keyword is not implemented in Java because Java’s final keyword does a better job of expressing what it means to be a constant in an object-oriented system. In Java, final is used to perform ...

In their 2009 JavaOne presentation Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe (PDF), Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter presented seven more puzzlers and extracted lessons learned from each of these ...

Computed constants offer the performance and safety benefits of final fields, but greater flexibility in the timing of initialization, the proposal states. An OpenJDK proposal would introduce ...