A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields, ...

In object technology, a variable used by an instance of a class. It holds data for a particular object. Contrast with class variable. See class. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...