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 ...

In recent weeks, there has been news of various features once proposed for JDK 7 that no longer are slated for this release.

There will be getter methods for properties, but there will be no setters. The number of wins, losses and ties maintained by the Score class can only be incremented by one at a time, so instead of ...

In Java, objects are passed by reference, and all methods are virtual, so object slicing will not occur inadvertently. Even if you upcast an object, its real type is not forgotten, that's the ...