In Effective Java (Item 15 [“Minimize Mutability”] in the Second Edition and Item 13 [“Favor Immutability”] in the First Edition), Joshua Bloch extols the virtues of immutable objects and ...

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 ...

Java doesn't work like this, java.lang.String and java.lang.StringBuffer aren't related through inheritance and when you call StringBuffer.toString () a brand new String is created with a copy of ...