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 ...

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 ...

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 ...