I am trying to use the following line to specify a double constant, can anybody help explain to me why at runtime this constant has a value of 0.0:
private static final double CONSTANT = 1/2;
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1 and 2 are interpreted as integers and produce integer result of division. Add D at the end to make them interpreted as doubles.