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, ...

An abstract class is a template definition of methods and variables in a specific class, or category of objects. In programming, objects are units of code, and each object is made into a generic class ...

Extension methods provide a great way for extending a class functionality -- but it's interfaces that let you use those methods anywhere you want. Extension methods let you add functionality to an ...

I have previously discussed using JAXB2 Basic Plugins to add common methods to JAXB-generated Java classes. In this blog post, I look at another approach for performing the same behaviors on ...

This is the second part in a series of introductory articles on SystemVerilog (SV) object oriented programming (OOP). In the first article, we covered the basics of the class data type and the history ...

Extensible applications allow you to add functionality without rewriting your application: you dynamically select the classes that make up your application at runtime rather than design time. I once ...