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What do you think the simpson.name will be after the transformIntoHomer method is executed? In this case, it will be Homer! The reason is that Java object variables are simply references that ...

It tests whether an object has an identifiable structure and then extracts the object's data if it does. This utility was ...

Rather, I am talking about tests that answer questions that often start with, “What does Java do if…” For most of my simple tests/demonstrations, I need a simple Java class with a main function.