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In the Java programming language, the final
keyword is used in several contexts to define an entity that can only be assigned once.
Once a final
variable has been assigned, it always contains the same value. If a final
variable holds a reference to an object, then the state of the object may be changed by operations on the object, but the variable will always refer to the same object (this property of final
is called non-transitivity). This applies also to arrays, because arrays are objects; if a final
variable holds a reference to an array, then the components of the array may be changed by operations on the array, but the variable will always refer to the same array.