今日の1年生の Java の授業を見学したところ、今回は static キーワード がテーマでした。 市販の教材や多くの授業では、static の文法知識だけを扱うことが多いようですが、実際にはその使いどころや設計意図まで理解しないと本質には届きません。 やはり ...

Here is a quote from Absolute Java, 1st Ed, by Walter Savitch:<BR>"Note that with a static method, the class name serves the same purpose as a calling object. (It would be legal to create an object of ...

In this blog post, I look at the concept of Java synthetic methods. The post summarizes what a Java synthetic method is, how one can be created and identified, and the implications of Java synthetic ...

Nested classes are classes that are declared as members of other classes or scopes. Nesting classes is one way to better organize your code. For example, say you have a non-nested class (also known as ...

This article is excerpted from Rails for Java Developers, by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland, with permission of The Pragmatic Programmers. All rights reserved ...