Created by Jeff Friesen. We’ll look at each of these methods and how you can use them to perform special tasks in the context of your Java classes. First, let’s consider the basic rules and ...

and we add “return value” at the end of the method. This changes how we call a method in Java, because we can simply insert the name of the method in-line in our code, as though it were a ...

private Date date = new Date(); public Date getDate() { return this.date; } } } The Java reflection APIs provide another approach for determining synthetic methods. The next code listing is for a ...