To create a global constant shared by every instance of a class, you combine Java's static and final keywords. The static keyword means the value is the same for every instance of the class. Final ...

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 ...

Why use typesafe enums, not enumerated types. An enumerated type specifies a set of related constants as its values. Examples include the days in a week, the standard north/south/east/west compass ...

Why is Java’s const keyword unimplemented? 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 ...