Java static final values replaced in code when compiling?

Question

In java, say I have the following

==fileA.java==
class A
{  
    public static final int SIZE = 100;
}  

Then in another file I use this valu

Answer 1

As an optimization the compiler will inline that final variable.

So at compile time it will look like.

class b
{
      Object[] temp = new Object[100];
}