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 ...

I recently bought an iBook to see what's up with the Objective-C and Cocoa stuff, if I'd like it or not (also I thought it would be nice to get a laptop again).<BR><BR>Last night I was messing around ...

Extent-local variables would provide a way to share data both within a thread and with child threads in Java, making it easier to reason about data flow. Java could gain a capability for sharing ...

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 ...