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 ...

This post explains how to call a method in Java. Learn how to define methods, call them from other classes, and pass arguments!

//Instantiation: Object item = classObj.newInstance (); </pre> <BR><BR>So I have new instance object and a Method ArrayList which contains the names of the methods in the Class.

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 ...

I wrote about the NetBeans hint "Overridable Method Call in Constructor" in the blog post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints . In this post, I look at why having an overridable method called ...