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 ...

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 ...

The Java platform provides APIs that allow reassignment of final fields at any time by any code in the program, thus undermining reasoning about correctness and invalidating important optimizations.