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 ...

Immutable objects are highly desirable . Because an immutable object's state cannot be changed, they are particularly useful in concurrent environments . Immutable options can simplify code and ...

Immutable objects are handy since they help with thread-safety and even just semantically since for many objects, if you modify it, it shouldn't be considered the same object. For objects of a ...