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 read-only ...

In a nutshell, it means the OS's foundation stays untouched, with changes happening around it rather than inside it. While having the base of the OS read-only does sound restrictive, especially in the ...

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 ...

The only real downside to an immutable distro is a slightly more limited number of apps. You can't use the normal repos that ...