What is Encapsulation in Java? Encapsulation in java is a principle by which data is hidden in an Object and can be accessed by the outside world only through accessor methods. The simplest way to understand encapsulation is to look at the basic data types such as Integer or Double. These data types hide the … Read more

What are the Access Modifiers in Java? Access Modifiers in Java control access to classes, methods, and variables. There are four basic access modifiers and they are public, protected, private and no modifier (Default). We will use the word default instead of no modifier for the rest of the tutorial. Here’s a summary of the … Read more

What does the import statement in java do? In an earlier tutorial we saw an introduction to java. In this tutorial, we will look at using imports in java. To state it plainly – import statements allows us to use the name of the class in our code instead of its fully qualified name. What … Read more

This tutorial provides an introduction to java packages and explains their features and benefits. What are Java Packages? Java packages are a way to logically and physically organize your code. Think of packages as a hierarchical folder structure within which you place your file. Let’s start with an example. In this example, we create a … Read more