Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

As you learned in my recent introduction to programming with classes and objects, you initialize an object via the code that you place in a class’s constructor. Consider Listing 7. Listing 7.

Java currently supports only two types of value: primitives and object references. Project Valhalla extends this by introducing inline classes which are a new form of type that exhibit some ...

Of course, Java object serialization is only half of the job. The other half is Java object deserializtion, which we accomplish with the FileInputStream and the ObjectInputStream. The first step to ...

Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...