Nested classes are classes that are declared as members of other classes or scopes. Nesting classes is one way to better organize your code. For example, say you have a non-nested class (also ...

This project contains annotated examples to illustrate the point that it is useful to define custom classes to represent domain entity types. These examples are based on Java, but the same ...

after the rightmost parameter type name in the method’s/constructor ... to the same package (discussed later in the Java 101 series) as the class containing the member that is to be accessed.

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This project contains a set of additional Java primitive type classes. Each class follows the same immutability conventions that the native Java primitive types support. They also provide a default ...

Reference types are also known as wrapper classes, because they wrap primitive values in objects. Java has two main types of data: primitive and reference types. Primitive types are the ...

Every class a Java developer creates needs a constructor ... However, technically all of these are subtypes of the 10 Java constructor types listed above. Cameron McKenzie has been a Java EE software ...

methods and reference types. Packages are always written in lowercase letters, with a dot between words. A Java package is a reference to the file system; the dot in a package name maps to the set of ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the precision of three linear-complexity type analyses for Java software: Class Hierarchy Analysis (CHA), Rapid Type Analysis (RTA) and Variable Type Analysis (VTA).