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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A little while ago, I gave Fedora Silverblue a try, and it felt really futuristic. By that, I mean that it was my first taste of what an "immutable" desktop is. Right now, operating systems like ...

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 ...