[Biojava-l] [Biojava-dev] Port an Algorithm to Java

[P. Troshin]

>> I hava an important question. What would it be the best method to treat
>> constant objects in java?

Make a class(es) and define your constants there, then import it
statically. Make your constants public static and final. You may want
to implement some of the constant as Enums
(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/enums.html).

Good luck with your project.

Regards,
Peter


On 4 April 2012 17:32, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:
> I recommend a very good read - Effective Java from Joshua Bloch.
>
> also there are a couple of good online articles about the topic of
> immutable objects.
>
> Andreas
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Dragos-Bogdan Sima
> <simadragosbogdan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I hava an important question. What would it be the best method to treat
>> constant objects in java?
>> I am thinking to write an Immuble interface that provides API for just the
>> const methods. Then if I return or pass objects of type immubable, the
>> degree of safety would be the same as in C++.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Dragos.
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