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 ...

An OpenJDK proposal would introduce computed constants to Java. Immutable value holders that are initialized at most once, computed constants offer the performance and safety benefits of final ...

Keywords const vs. final in Java. The final keyword can be considered the Java languages equivalent for const.. If a Java developer wants a variable to be constant, they mark that variable as final.A ...