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Immutability helps to supporting security reasoning. It is safe to share immutable objects, without risk that the recipient can modify something that we are relying upon \[java:[Mettler 2010B|AA. Bibliography#MettlerReferences#Mettler 2010B]\]. |
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Programmers could incorrectly expect that declaring a field or variable {{final}} makes the referenced object immutable. Declaring variables that have a primitive type to be {{final}} does prevent changes to their values after initialization (unless the unsupported {{sun.misc.Unsafe}} class is used). However, when the variable has a reference type, the presence of a {{final}} clause in the declaration only makes _the reference itself_ immutable. The {{final}} clause has no effect on the referenced object. Consequently, the fields of the referenced object can be mutable. For example, according to the _Java Language Specification_ \[java:[JLS 2005|AA. Bibliography#JLSReferences#JLS 05]\], [§4.12.4|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/typesValues.html#4.12.4], "{{final}} Variables," |
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