Object Oriented Programming Articles - Page 796 of 915

In Java, the behaviour of any variable or method is defined by the keyword used in front of its declaration. One of the non-access modifiers is static, which can be used with both methods and variables. The static methods are defined at the class level and can be accessed without creating an instance of the class, while instance methods require an object of the class for accessibility. Static methods exist as a single copy for the entire class, whereas instance methods exist as multiple copies, depending on the number of instances created for that particular class. Static methods cannot directly ... Read More

Stack is a subclass of Vector that implements a standard last-in, first-out stack. Stack only defines the default constructor, which creates an empty stack. Stack includes all the methods defined by Vector, and adds several of its own. Stack( ) Apart from the methods inherited from its parent class Vector, Stack defines the following methods − Sr.No. Method & Description 1 boolean empty() Tests if this stack is empty. Returns true if the stack is empty, and returns false if the stack contains elements. 2 Object peek( ) Returns the element ... Read More

As we know that Hash map in Java does not maintain insertion order either by key or by order.Also it does not maintain any other order while adding entries to it. Now in order to sort a hash map according to the values mapped to its corresponding keys we first need to get all values of map considering that hash map has unique values only.Now put all the values in a list and sort this list with the comparator or comparable interface of Java. As we get sorted list of unique values now get corresponding keys from the map and ... Read More

In order to sort in Java as we know we can use either Comparable or Comparator interfaces in which we could also define our custom logic to sort.One of the approach to sort is to add the entity in TreeSet or TreeMap which would sort the entries as internally they also uses the comparable interface. Now String class in Java internally implements comparable interface so whenever we add string to a tree set or map it uses comparable logic of string class and sort the input entry strings.But String buffer do not have the implementation of comparable interface so ... Read More

To send an e-mail using your Java Application is simple enough but to start with you should have JavaMail API and Java Activation Framework (JAF) installed on your machine. You can download latest version of JavaMail (Version 1.2) from Java's standard website. You can download latest version of JAF (Version 1.1.1) from Java's standard website. Download and unzip these files, in the newly created top level directories you will find a number of jar files for both the applications. You need to add mail.jar and activation.jar files in your CLASSPATH. Send a Simple E-mail Here is ... Read More

In Java private methods are the methods having private access modifier and are restricted to be access in the defining class only and are not visible in their child class due to which are not eligible for overridden. However, we can define a method with the same name in the child class and could access in parent class.Like private methods final methods in Java are the methods having final non-access modifier instead of private and are again restricted to be accessed in the defining class only and are not visible in their child class due to which are not eligible ... Read More

As we know the primary role of the constructor is to instantiate a class object now if we made the constructor as private then we restrict its calling to be only in defining a class and not in some other class. Now the singleton class in Java is defined as the class which restricts the instantiation of a class and ensure that only one instance of the class exists in the JVM. After first time if instantiate the singleton class the new variable also points to the first instance created. In order to create a singleton class we could use ... Read More

The java.util.PriorityQueue class is an unbounded priority queue based on a priority heap.Following are the important points about PriorityQueue − The elements of the priority queue are ordered according to their natural ordering, or by a Comparator provided at queue construction time, depending on which constructor is used. A priority queue does not permit null elements. A priority queue relying on natural ordering also does not permit insertion of non-comparable objects. Class declaration Following is the declaration for java.util.PriorityQueue class − public class PriorityQueue extends AbstractQueue implements Serializable Parameters Following ... Read More

In this post we will try to print an array or matrix of numbers at console in same manner as we generally write on paper. For this the logic is to access each element of array one by one and make them print separated by a space and when row get to emd in matrix then we will also change the row Example Live Demo public class Print2DArray { public static void main(String[] args) { final int[][] matrix = { ... Read More

The java.lang.Math class contains methods for performing basic numeric operations such as the elementary exponential, logarithm, square root, and trigonometric functions. Class Declaration Following is the declaration for java.lang.Math class − public final class Math extends Object Field Following are the fields for java.lang.Math class − static double E − This is the double value that is closer than any other to e, the base of the natural logarithms. static double PI − This is the double value that is closer than any other to pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle ... Read More