I had read in some design book that immutable class improves scalability and its good practice to write immutable class wherever possible. But I think so immutable class increase object proliferation. So is it good of going immutable class or better go for static class (A class with all the methods static) for improve scalability ? ...
Why and when do we need immutable (i.e. readonly) classes (I am not talking about string. I am talking about Business Objects) in business or database applications? Can anyone give me a real-world example of a scenario? ...
Hi, I am a newbie in Objective C and I was wondering what is the best way to define an immutable class in Objective-C (like NSString for example). I want to know what are the basic rules one has to follow to make a class immutable. I think that : setters shouldn't be provided if properties are used, they should be readonly to "disa...