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http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-to-leak-5000-open-source-java.html
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who coined the term "Opened Source" to describe the jailbroken open-source Java code, fears he may be arrested by campus security at Oracle or possibly IBM. The Wikileaks founder said: "Today the Eclipse Foundation put out a private briefing calling me a 'non-thread-safe AbstractKeywordRemovalInitiatorFactory'.

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final in Java can be used on classes, methods, and variables.  A final class can not be extended (subclassed); a final method can not be overridden in a subclass; and, a final variable is a constant variable and can only be assigned once (it will always equal that value or refer to that object).

It's not that I don't use constants; it's that I try to avoid situations where I could need them (in Java, at least).