I prefer that all of my Java classes provide for immutable objects unless there is a compelling need for them to be mutable. I’m not the only one who feels this way.

In Mutable and Immutable Objects, David O’Meara specifies that there are two approaches for ensuring methods are not overridden in a class designed to be immutable.

This is perhaps a fork of this thread insomuch as it was what got me thinking again about best ways of doing these things. Immutable objects are handy since they help with thread-safety and even ...

Java SE 14 (March 2020) ... shallowly immutable carrier for a specific ordered sequence of elements. ... if those values are references to mutable objects, ...