任何类型的常量都可以通过在类中创建一个不可变属性(即带有final修饰符的成员变量)来声明。通常还提供静态和公共修饰符。

public class OfficePrinter {
    public static final String STATE = "Ready";  
}

在许多应用中，常量的值表示从n元组(例如枚举)的选择中进行选择。在我们的例子中，我们可以选择定义一个枚举类型来限制可能分配的值(即改进的类型安全):

public class OfficePrinter {
    public enum PrinterState { Ready, PCLoadLetter, OutOfToner, Offline };
    public static final PrinterState STATE = PrinterState.Ready;
}

I use static final to declare constants and go with the ALL_CAPS naming notation. I have seen quite a few real life instances where all constants are bunched together into an interface. A few posts have rightly called that a bad practice, primarily because that's not what an interface is for. An interface should enforce a contract and should not be a place to put unrelated constants in. Putting it together into a class that cannot be instantiated (through a private constructor) too is fine if the constant semantics don't belong to a specific class(es). I always put a constant in the class that it's most related to, because that makes sense and is also easily maintainable.

枚举是表示一组值的好选择，但是如果您要存储强调绝对值的独立常量(例如。TIMEOUT = 100 ms)你可以直接使用静态的final方法。

一个好的面向对象设计不应该需要很多公开可用的常量。大多数常量都应该封装在需要它们完成工作的类中。

这完全可以接受，甚至可能是标准。

(public/private) static final TYPE NAME = VALUE;

其中TYPE是类型，NAME是全大写的名称，空格用下划线表示，VALUE是常量值;

我强烈建议不要将常量放在它们自己的类或接口中。

附注:声明为final且为mutable的变量仍然可以更改;但是，变量永远不能指向不同的对象。

例如:

public static final Point ORIGIN = new Point(0,0);

public static void main(String[] args){

    ORIGIN.x = 3;

}

这是合法的，ORIGIN将是(3,0)点。

我这样做的方法之一是通过创建一个具有常量值的“全局”类，并在需要访问常量的类中进行静态导入。

我强烈建议不要只使用一个常量类。这在当时看起来是一个好主意，但是当开发人员拒绝记录常量，并且类增长到包含500个以上彼此完全不相关的常量(与应用程序的完全不同方面相关)时，通常会导致常量文件完全不可读。而不是:

If you have access to Java 5+, use enums to define your specific constants for an application area. All parts of the application area should refer to enums, not constant values, for these constants. You may declare an enum similar to how you declare a class. Enums are perhaps the most (and, arguably, only) useful feature of Java 5+. If you have constants that are only valid to a particular class or one of its subclasses, declare them as either protected or public and place them on the top class in the hierarchy. This way, the subclasses can access these constant values (and if other classes access them via public, the constants aren't only valid to a particular class...which means that the external classes using this constant may be too tightly coupled to the class containing the constant) If you have an interface with behavior defined, but returned values or argument values should be particular, it is perfectly acceptible to define constants on that interface so that other implementors will have access to them. However, avoid creating an interface just to hold constants: it can become just as bad as a class created just to hold constants.