This example also shows a misbehaving toString() implementation in the subclass. If we extend the Fraction class and mark the methods we don’t want overridden with final, there could be ...

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 ...

Proposal would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final flelds, preparing for a future Java release that disallows mutation of final fields by default.