Java does enable the option to mark a class as final to eliminate the ability to perform inheritance complete, but that is often too heavy of a hammer to drop. Marking a class as final prevents all ...

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 ...

In Java, nested classes are categorized as either static member classes or inner classes. Inner classes are non-static member classes, local classes, or anonymous classes.