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 ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

The number of wins, losses and ties maintained by the Score class can only be incremented by one at a time, so instead of setter methods, the Java serialization object will have methods called ...

The desire to achieve this goal contributed to the decision to remove all forms of explicit memory address manipulation from the Java language, as well as eliminate any direct means of reclaiming the ...

Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements ...

Object slicing throws away information. But in some situations this may be exactly what we want. In Java, objects are passed by reference, and all methods are virtual, so object slicing will not occur ...