You’ve learned that Java objects are passed by value, meaning that a copy of the value is passed. Just remember that the copied value points to a real object in the Java memory heap.

Today, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET and Python are popular object-oriented languages. The following compares basic OOP terms with traditional programming. See object-oriented DBMS .

Java is the primary language used to create Android apps. Java, you may have heard, is an ‘object oriented’ programming language. But what precisely does that mean?