In a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks.

let’s recap the steps of initializing a Java class. Consider Listing 1. Listing 1. Initializing class fields to default values class SomeClass { static boolean b; static byte by; static char c ...

In Java, you can have a section of code inside a class definition that looks like this:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">code:</font><HR><pre><BR> static {<BR ...