Matt brought up a good point of discussion related to making Java classes truly immutable by declaring them as final so that they cannot be extended. His comment was: “Implementation inheritance ...

More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The reason why global constants in Java use the static and ...

A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) to prepare to make final mean final in Java would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. The warnings would prepare Java developers ...

Well, here it is: the official Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 release candidate. It’s the first new version of Java in five years, and the first since Oracle took over Sun. It feels like more of a ...

Also, nearly half of these features are final, some of which have gone through the incubation and preview processes. As shown in the graph below, as presented in this blog post, the feature ...

This release is the final Java release before the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release in September. According to Saab, Java 25 will not have a lot of newer features compared to Java 24 ...

Apple on Friday released previews of the final two custom-built Java runtime updates for OS X before the company hands over all responsibility to Oracle. The updates, titled "Java for OS X 2012 ...