Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

8 Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

• See additional details of creating class declarations.

• Use the throw statement to indicate that a problem has occurred.

• Use keyword this in a constructor to call another constructor in the same class.

• Use static variables and methods.

• Import static members of a class.

• Use the enum type to create sets of constants with unique identifiers.

• Declare enum constants with parameters.

• Use BigDecimal for precise monetary calculations.

Outline

1. 8.1 Introduction

2. 8.2 Time Class Case Study

3. 8.3 Controlling Access to Members

4. 8.4 Referring to the Current Object’s Members with the this Reference

5. 8.5 Time Class Case Study: Overloaded Constructors

6. 8.6 Default and No-Argument ...