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 for a ...
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 cannot ...
After many years of work, Oracle has set September 22, 2016, as the release date for Java 9, its major overhaul of the Java programming language. The company just published a release schedule for the ...