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 ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...

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In this post, we will learn how to call a method in Java. This is a useful “chunk” of code that you can call from anywhere else in your program, thus preventing you from needing to write out the same ...