Apr 12, 2012 · 4 The difference between a variable, field, attribute, and property in Java: A variable is the name given to a memory location. It is the basic unit of storage in a program. A field is a data …

Dec 8, 2015 · The Java Language Specification clearly states (emphasis mine): Accessing and or modifying these instance variables, which are freshly incarnated for each object through a named …

Java allows describing methods, that is actions that the implementing object should be able to perform, but not any implementation details, thus, nothing about object fields or private methods. But what …

Jun 6, 2013 · 251 I'm a little confused about the difference between the getFields method and the getDeclaredFields method when using Java reflection. I read that getDeclaredFields gives you …

person is eating grapes For accessing fields of a class, Object of that class is created. My question is: In Person class, how can I access fruitname field of Fruit class (i.e., writing f.fruitname) without …

From suns java tutorial It's not always necessary to assign a value when a field is declared. Fields that are declared but not initialized will be set to a reasonable default by the compiler. Generally …

Dec 1, 2015 · So it cannot have instance state, although interface fields can define constants, which are implicitly static and final. You cannot specify method bodies or initializer blocks in an interface, …

Aug 26, 2015 · public interface IModifier{ public String nameTag; public void foo(); } But Java doesn't allow interface to contain a field. Why is that? What to do in my case? My understand of the purpose …

May 26, 2009 · The transient keyword in Java is used to indicate that a field should not be part of the serialization (which means saved, like to a file) process. From the Java Language Specification, Java …

Dec 3, 2016 · 3 A "date field" or "data member" is a variable which is part of the class, and holds some data. In this case, you have three data fields - hour, minute and second (all int s). Your task is to …