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The final Keyword

The final is a keyword. This is similar to const keyword in other languages. This keyword may not be used as identifiers i.e. you cannot declare a variable or class with this name in your Java program.

In the Java programming language, the keyword "final" is used with different entity, which makes it unchangeable later. It is a modifier that indicates that a class cannot be extended, a variable cannot be changed, and a method cannot be overridden. We can have final methods, final classes, final data members, final local variables and final parameters. 

1.  variables: A variable declared with the final keyword cannot be modified by the program, once it has been initialized. It can only be assigned to once.
   Unlike the constant value, the value of a final variable is not necessarily known at compile time. Final variable comes in mostly two important situations: to prevent accidental changes to method parameters, and with variables accessed by anonymous classes.
   The syntax of declaring a final type variable is:

2. methods: A final method cannot be overridden by subclasses and not be hidden. This technology prevents unexpected behavior from a subclass for altering a method that may be crucial to the function of the class.
   private and static methods are always implicitly final in Java, since they cannot be overridden.
   
   The syntax of declaring a final type method is:
   
   

   public class MyFinalClass {   public final void myFinalMethod()    {  ???...    ????   } }

3. classes: A final class cannot be extended. A final class implicitly has all the methods declared as final, but not necessarily the data members.
   
   The syntax of declaring a final type method is:

final Fields 

The fields can also be declared as final. This is not the same thing as declaring a method or class to be final. When a field is declared final, it is a constant, which cannot be changed. It can be set once.

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