Final应该总是用于常量。当定义变量的规则很复杂时，它甚至对于短期存在的变量(在单个方法中)也很有用。

例如:

final int foo;
if (a)
    foo = 1;
else if (b)
    foo = 2;
else if (c)
    foo = 3;
if (d)        // Compile error:  forgot the 'else'
    foo = 4;
else
    foo = -1;

为事件监听器使用匿名本地类等是Java中的常见模式。 final关键字最常见的用法是确保偶数侦听器可以访问作用域内的变量。

但是，如果您发现自己被要求在代码中放入大量的最终语句。这可能是你做错事的好暗示。

上面的文章给出了这样一个例子:

public void doSomething(int i, int j) {
    final int n = i + j; // must be declared final

    Comparator comp = new Comparator() {
        public int compare(Object left, Object right) {
            return n; // return copy of a local variable
        }
    };
}

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.

Even for local variables, knowing that it is declared final means that I don't need to worry about the reference being changed later on. This means that when debugging and I see that variable later on, I am confident that it is referring to the same object. That is one less thing I need to worry about when looking for a bug. A bonus is that if 99% of variables are declared final, then the few variables which really are variable stand out better. Also, the final lets the compiler find some more possible stupid mistakes that might otherwise go unnoticed.

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。

强烈鼓励使用final作为常量。但是，我不会将它用于方法或类(或者至少考虑一下)，因为它使测试更加困难，如果不是不可能的话。如果一定要让一个类或方法成为final，请确保这个类实现了一些接口，这样就可以让一个模拟实现相同的接口。