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 ...

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 ...

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 ...