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 ...

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 ...

Reader beware: this is a JavaSE immutable class post. Immutable objects are instances whose state doesn't change after it has been initialized. For example, String is an immutable class and once ...