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Fields declared static final are also safe for multithreaded use; see guideline TSM03-J. Do not publish partially initialized objects. However, remember that simply changing the modifier to final may not prevent attackers from indirectly retrieving an incorrect value from the static final variable before its initialization; see guideline DCL12-J. Eliminate Prevent class initialization cycles for more information. Further, individual members of the referenced object can also be changed if the object itself is mutable; see guideline OBJ01-J. Do not assume that declaring a reference to be final causes the referenced object to be immutable.
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