Best practice for use constants in scala annotations

Question

I use tapestry 5 as my choice of web framework. Tapestry allows me to define symbols in the configure class and inject symbols into other components.

for example,

Answer 1

The 'final' keyword is required to make the compiler emit it as you would do it in Java. E.g.,

object Foo
{
   final val MY_SYMBOLIC_CONSTANT="whatever"
}

It seems that, otherwise, you only get an accessor method under the hood which is not statically calculable.