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This post explains how to call a method in Java. Learn how to define methods, call them from other classes, and pass arguments!

In Java, objects are passed by reference, and all methods are virtual, so object slicing will not occur inadvertently. Even if you upcast an object, its real type is not forgotten, that's the ...

For JDK 7, I think it is high-time the platform included a class like java.util.Objects to hold commonly-written utility methods. I couldn’t agree more! I have used several other languages that ...

//Instantiation: Object item = classObj.newInstance (); </pre> <BR><BR>So I have new instance object and a Method ArrayList which contains the names of the methods in the Class.

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