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 ...

A Java string is a sequence of characters that exists as an object of the class java.lang. Java strings are created and manipulated through the string class. Once created, a string is immutable -- its ...

Language architects may find themselves down a deep rabbit hole as they try to nail down the meaning of the const keyword. Why is Java’s const keyword unimplemented? The const keyword is not ...

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 ...