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 ...

This post explains how to use classes in Java to build objects and organize your code. Also learn: constructors, static methods, and more!

When compiling class initializers and class initialization blocks, the Java compiler stores the compiled bytecode (in top-down order) in a special method named <clinit>().

Limitations of reflective method lookup. By Paul Holser; July 24, 2001; REFLECTION IS A powerful and intriguing feature of Java. Using the facilities of the class java.lang.Class and the Reflection ...

Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...