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 ...

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 ...

At JavaZone 2010 I will be giving a lightning talk on APIs that use dynamic subclasses. These APIs make it possible to do things in Java that seem like pure magic. Here are some ideas of what you ...

The Java Platform provides support for this capability in the form of reference queues: instances of the java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue class.

Creating New Objects Programmatically Use the first syntax (objectName._new) to create a new object. When invoking _new on an object subclass, the _init method of the new instance (new-object-id) is ...