Chapter Summary

The following information was included in this chapter:

• explanation of declaration, construction, initialization, and usage of both one- and multi-dimensional arrays, including anonymous arrays

• defining classes

• defining methods, usage of the this reference in an instance method, and method overloading

• defining constructors, usage of the default constructor, and overloading of constructors

• defining and using packages

• discussion of accessibility (default, public) and other modifiers (abstract, final) for classes and interfaces

• explanation of class scope for members, and block scope for local variables

• applicability of member accessibility (default, public, protected, private) and other member modifiers (static, final, abstract, synchronized, native, transient, volatile)