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 ...

In object technology, a class in which none of the elements in the instances of the class can be changed. In contast, elements in a "mutable" class can be changed, and a mutable class can be a ...

Q: How do I create my own pair of mutable and immutable classes similar to String and StringBuffer ? A: Immutability in a “weak” sense (for lack of a better term) means creating a temporary read-only ...

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