Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

Bart van Riel has been involved in the Java and object-oriented world for more than seven years. He has worked both as a developer and trainer in the object-oriented and Java fields. He is ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what ... adamsAccount.setBalance(100); // Using a basic Java IDE (programming environment) then ...