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 ...

When compiling class initializers and class initialization blocks, the Java compiler stores the compiled bytecode (in top-down order) in a special method named <clinit>().

The object's class definition is then known at compile time, enabling the SCL compiler to verify the method and to access attributes at that time. Moreover, since dot notation checks the method ...