Quick Java question about private static final keywords for fields

Question

I\'m declaring a field:

private static final String filename = \"filename.txt\";

First, does the order of private static final

Answer 1

It's common in Java to give constants (static final values) an all-uppercase name, so I would write:

private static final String FILENAME = "filename.txt";

See also Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language. (Those are Sun's code conventions that the majority of Java programmers use).