SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java

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Although final can be used to specify immutable constants, there is a caveat when dealing with composite objects. See VOID OBJ02-J. Never conflate immutability of a reference with that of the referenced object for more details.

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DCL51DCL54-JJG. Do not declare more than one variable per declaration      01. Declarations and Initialization (DCL)      Image RemovedDCL55-J. Properly encode relationships in constant definitions