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Everything in Java is an object. You manipulate objects with references. Although you treat everything as an object, the identifier you manipulate is actually a “reference” to an object. That...

Distinguishing overloaded methods If the methods have the same name, how can Java know which method you mean? There's a simple rule: Each overload method must take a unique list of argument types. ...

  class Banana { void peel(int i){ //do something } } public class BananaPeel { public static void main(String[] args){ Banana a = new Banana(), b = new Banana(); a.peel(1...

  import java.util.List; import java.util.Arrays; abstract class Shape { void draw() { System.out.println(this + ".draw()"); } abstract public String toString(); } class Circle...

To understand how RTTI works in Java, you must first know how type information is represented at run time. This is accomplished through a special kind of object called the Class object, which contains...

Registered factories   A problem with generating objects of the Pets hiearachy is the fact that every time you add a new type of Pet to the hierarchy you must remember to add it to the entries i...

instanceof vs Class equivalence   /* When you are querying for type information, there's an important different between either form of instanceof(that is, instanceof or isInstance(), which p...

If you don't know the precise type of an object, RTTI will tell you. However, there's a limitation: The type must be known at compile time in order for yo uto detect it using RTTI and to do something ...

Proxy is one of the basic design patterns. It is an object that you insert in place of the "real" object in order to provide additional or different operations-these usually involve communication with...