What is the difference between constant variables and final variables in java?

Question

Please help me understand the difference between constant variables and final variables in Java. I am a bit confused with it.

Answer 1

Constant is the concept, the property of the variable.

final is the java keyword to declare a constant variable.

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As other people pointed out, from a semantic/linguistic point of view the expression constant variable is an oxymoron and, as such, we could argue about its correctness.

Quoting the specification, anyway, we can read

A variable of primitive type [...], that is final and initialized with a compile-time constant expression (§15.28), is called a constant variable.

I suppose, hence, that we can accept (and consider correct) this binomial for our purpose.