Developers who create a runnable Java class, be it for a ‘Hello World’ demonstration or to kick off a fully featured enterprise application, will enjoy the following technical benefits when using ...

Rather than use an instance "s" of a String object to call the static method valueOf (), it's preferrable to use the classname to make the call, as in String.valueOf ()<BR>Hope this helps.

This Java tip introduces additional concepts and techniques related to fields and methods–namely field constants, field-access rules, chaining instance method calls, pass-by-value arguments ...