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. ... After a class has been loaded and initialized, you’ll often want to create objects from the class.

Will Java object serialization target the file-system? Will the Java object serialized across a network? Will the serialized Java object be delivered to an external system. In this case we will ...

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design. By Leonard Slipp ; February 5, 2001; ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory ...

The class in this example only defines properties. It contains no explicitly defined Java constructors. When no explicitly defined constructors exist, Java's virtual machine makes object creation ...

In my previous article, I described how to use Java’s reference objects, SoftReferenceand WeakReference, to build weak references and mark blocks as reclaimable in a simple application.

Creating new data structures The Collections Framework already provides generic implementations of the most popular data structures, which is enough for most applications.