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 ...

Immutable options can simplify code and reduce chances of unanticipated and undesired state in objects. I prefer that all of my Java classes provide for immutable objects unless there is a ...

In Java, final is used to perform the following tasks: In terms of fully immutable objects, the historic workaround has been to declare instance variables private and restrict access through public ...