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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My general preference is to use immutable classes and collections as often as possible. I have often used the Collections methods for returning unmodifiable collections. One drawback of the ...