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 ...

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Immutability makes your objects thread-safe and helps improve memory management. It also makes your code more readable and easier to maintain. An immutable object is defined as an object that, once ...

In a previous column I discussed all the reasons for creating read-only objects and how they could simplify your applications (in fact, I recommended that creating a read-only object should be your ...