I have to read a lot of code for my job. Missing final on instance variables is one of the top things to annoy me and makes understanding the code unnecessarily difficult. For my money, final on local variables causes more clutter than clarity. The language should have been designed to make that the default, but we have to live with the mistake. Sometimes it is useful particularly with loops and definite assignment with an if-else tree, but mostly it tends to indicate your method is too complicated.

我设置Eclipse在所有未修改的字段和属性上添加final。使用Eclipse“save actions”在保存文件时添加这些最终修饰符(以及其他东西)，效果非常好。

强烈推荐。

请查看我关于Eclipse Save Actions的博客文章。

我很少在方法或类上使用final，因为我喜欢允许人们重写它们。

否则，我只使用finally如果它是一个公共/私有静态最终类型SOME_CONSTANT;

为:

Final fields - Marking fields as final forces them to be set by end of construction, making that field reference immutable. This allows safe publication of fields and can avoid the need for synchronization on later reads. (Note that for an object reference, only the field reference is immutable - things that object reference refers to can still change and that affects the immutability.) Final static fields - Although I use enums now for many of the cases where I used to use static final fields.

考虑但审慎地使用:

最终类——框架/API设计是我唯一考虑的情况。 Final方法——基本上与Final类相同。如果你疯狂地使用模板方法模式，并把东西标记为final，你可能太依赖继承而不是委托。

忽略，除非感觉肛门:

Method parameters and local variables - I RARELY do this largely because I'm lazy and I find it clutters the code. I will fully admit that marking parameters and local variables that I'm not going to modify is "righter". I wish it was the default. But it isn't and I find the code more difficult to understand with finals all over. If I'm in someone else's code, I'm not going to pull them out but if I'm writing new code I won't put them in. One exception is the case where you have to mark something final so you can access it from within an anonymous inner class.

对于将所有可能的变量都声明为final，我非常武断。这包括方法参数、局部变量，以及很少的值对象字段。我有三个在任何地方声明最终变量的主要原因:

Declaring Intention: By declaring a final variable, I am stating that this variable is meant to be written to only once. It's a subtle hint to other developers, and a big hint to the compiler. Enforcing Single-use Variables: I believe in the idea that each variable should have only one purpose in life. By giving each variable only one purpose, you reduce the time it takes to grok the purpose of that particular variable while debugging. Allows for Optimization: I know that the compiler used to have performance enhancement tricks which relied specifically on the immutability of a variable reference. I like to think some of these old performance tricks (or new ones) will be used by the compiler.

然而，我确实认为final类和方法远不如final变量引用有用。最后一个关键字，当与这些声明一起使用时，只是为自动化测试和以您从未预料到的方式使用代码提供了障碍。

在使用final关键字之前，您确实需要了解它的全部用途。它可以应用于变量、字段、方法和类，并对它们产生不同的影响

我建议你看看下面链接的文章，了解更多细节。

关于最后的关键字