Variable Declarations

• Instance variables can Have any access control
• Be marked final or transient
• Instance variables can't be abstract, synchronized, native, or strictfp.
• It is legal to declare a local variable with the same name as an instance variable; this is called "shadowing."
• final variables have the following properties:
• final variables cannot be reinitialized once assigned a value.
• final reference variables cannot refer to a different object once the object has been assigned to the final variable.
• final reference variables must be initialized before the constructor completes.
• There is no such thing as a final object. An object reference marked final does not mean the object itself is immutable.
• The transient modifier applies only to instance variables.
• The volatile modifier applies only to instance variables.