In Java, encapsulation basically translates to this simple guideline: “Don’t access your object’s data directly; use its methods.” That is an elementary idea, but it eases our lives as ...

Thus, we might make the method return a string. To do this, we change the word “void” for the type of variable we want to return, and we add “return value ” at the end of the method.

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design. By Leonard Slipp ; February 5, 2001; ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory ...

Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements ...