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 is a feature of functional programming languages that makes programs easier to write, test, and maintain. However, immutability is not supported by many imperative programming languages.

This is perhaps a fork of this thread insomuch as it was what got me thinking again about best ways of doing these things. Immutable objects are handy since they help with thread-safety and even just ...

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 ...