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 ...

Allen Holub's past Java Toolbox column, " Why Getter and Setter Methods Are Evil," discussed the downside of the getter/setter idiom. That article presented a design-level solution. (By keeping ...

For this Java serialization tutorial, we will to create a simple Score class. This class will model the score of a rock-paper-scissors game, with properties that count the number of wins, losses and ...