What is the purpose of declaring a variable as final?

In Java, final is a keyword. The value of a variable declared as final remains unchanged in an application. This means that the variable should be initialized at the time of its declaration.

The syntax for declaring a variable as final is given below:

final <data-type> <variable-name>

Note: It is similar to const in C and C++.

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