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, ...

An abstract class is a template definition of methods and variables in a specific class, or category of objects. In programming, objects are units of code, and each object is made into a generic class ...

I introduced the issue of JAXB-generated classes not having explicitly overridden equals(Object), hashCode(), or toString() methods in the blog post Adding Common ...

Extension methods provide a great way for extending a class functionality -- but it's interfaces that let you use those methods anywhere you want. Extension methods let you add functionality to an ...

So I'm at a client's site and we're discussing adding a new method to an existing class. One of the client's programmers said, "We should put the method in the base class and let all the derived ...

Instance main methods and unnamed classes, coming in Java 21, will forever change how developers learn Java and bootstrap applications. Why? They provide a simple, clean and concise syntax to launch ...