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 ...

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 ...

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 ...