Java public static final or private static final

About

This is a blog post about keywords public static final and private static final in JAVA world. To be honest, answers came from Stackoverflow. Putting them together is what I have done in this blog.

About static

There is one and only one copied in the memory. Even though there are millions of instances, they are all accessing the same pieces of memory if it had been specified with static. Refer to here for further explanation.

About final

You are not allowed to change value of a variable if it had been defined with final. Refer to here for explanation.

public final static vs private final static

The best practice is using the latter one. For the explanation, please refer to here

References

• http://blog.kenyang.net/2011/03/java-staticfinal.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10047802/public-static-final-or-private-static-final-with-getter
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413898/what-does-the-static-keyword-do-in-a-class

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