Possible Duplicate private final static attribute vs private final attribute What s the difference between declaring a variable as static final int x 5 or final int x 5 If I only want to the variable to be local and constant cannot be changed later Thanks

Static Final Variable in Java

Just having final will have the intended effect.

final int x = 5;

...
x = 10; // this will cause a compilation error because x is final

Declaring static is making it a class variable, making it accessible using the class name <ClassName>.x

~ Answered on 2011-09-27 02:48:58