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 ...

Computed constants offer the performance and safety benefits of final fields, but greater flexibility in the timing of initialization, the proposal states. An OpenJDK proposal would introduce ...

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 ...