A mechanism of wrapping data (variables) and code together as a single unit. The variables of a class will be hidden from other classes, and can be accessed only through the methods of their current ...

In section 7 of the Java Masterclass by Tim Buchalka we learn about the principals of Object Oriented Programming [OOP] in Java. Abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism are the main ...

Encapsulation is one of the basic characteristics of object-oriented programming. However, the access modifiers provided by common object-oriented languages do not help much because they only ...