Abstract: The use of collections for grouping objects is very common in object oriented applications, and even small-scale programs developed by undergraduate students. One of the most popular ...

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Abstract: Distributed object-oriented applications are commonly implemented atop middleware platforms such as CORBA, .NET Remoting, and Java remote method invocation (RMI). These platforms provide a ...

We will focus on the relationship between polymorphism and Java inheritance. The main thing to keep in mind is that polymorphism requires an inheritance or an interface implementation. You can see ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

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