Java Class and Object

Nov 3, 2023

A variable of a class type holds a reference to an object of that class.

• Java Interface

• Non-static nested classes (inner classes) are members of their enclosing class and have access to other members of the enclosing class, while static nested classes are not members of their enclosing class and do not have access to the instance variables and methods of the enclosing class.
• Non-static nested classes can access non-static members of the enclosing class directly, while nested static classes cannot and need to create an instance of the enclosing class to access them

To construct an object, you use the new operator, followed by a call to the constructor.

new Greeter("World")

The new operator returns the constructed object, or, more precisely, a reference to that object—we will discuss that distinction in detail in the section on object references.

Class is a user-defined datatype that has its own data members and member functions whereas an object is an instance of class by which we can access the data members and member functions of the class.

Also called a class variable (in contract to a instance variable)

The main method is static, which means that it doesn’t operate on an object.

• But why is main void
  A program terminates all its activity and exits when one of two things happens:
• All the threads that are not daemon threads terminate.
• Some thread invokes the exit method of class Runtime or class System and the exit operation is not forbidden by the security manager.
  In other words, the program may exit before or after the main method finishes; a return value from main would therefore be meaningless. If you want the program to return a status code, call one of the following methods (note that all three methods never return normally):