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 ...

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 ...

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 ...