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Annotation Type Immutable</H2>
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</FONT>public @interface <B>Immutable</B></DL>
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The class to which this annotation is applied is immutable. This means that
its state cannot be seen to change by callers, which implies that
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<li> all public fields are final, </li>
<li> all public final reference fields refer to other immutable objects, and </li>
<li> constructors and methods do not publish references to any internal state
which is potentially mutable by the implementation. </li>
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Immutable objects may still have internal mutable state for purposes of performance
optimization; some state variables may be lazily computed, so long as they are computed
from immutable state and that callers cannot tell the difference.
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Immutable objects are inherently thread-safe; they may be passed between threads or
published without synchronization.
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Based on code developed by Brian Goetz and Tim Peierls and concepts
published in 'Java Concurrency in Practice' by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls,
Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes and Doug Lea.
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