Variable scope and lifetime. Developers implement instance variables to contain data useful to a class. An instance variable differs from a local variable in the nature of its scope and its lifetime.

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 ...

In object technology, a variable used by an instance of a class. It holds data for a particular object. Contrast with class variable. See class. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...