title: Defining constant string in Java?
body: <p>I have a list of constant strings that I need to display at different times during my Java program.</p>
  
  <p>In C I could define the strings like this at the top of my code:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-c prettyprint-override"><code>#define WELCOME_MESSAGE "Hello, welcome to the server"
  #define WAIT_MESSAGE "Please wait 5 seconds"
  #define EXIT_MESSAGE "Bye!"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am wondering what is the standard way of doing this kind of thing in Java?</p>