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Subject access directly is an instance of declare call by is a subtopic of access from have result refer to see also access by provide place in work by specify contain use by have purpose provide access to is a synonym of mark as have example override by implement be implicitly have access to be part of operate on is a kind of clean up have example of calling avoid affect allow inherit by use override access you have arguments have has definition divide into be facilitate
accessor method    Methods    other methods and variables in any class in the same package by defaultif you anticipate that the detailed definition of a class may change because this will isolate the effects of potential changes   return statement unless it has a void return type  imaginary instance variable that exist only in the sense that their values can be computed from instance variables that do exist      a class or an object method    you to include additional computation, for example writing out a message the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obviousA method which returns (getter) or changes (setter, mutator) the state of an object public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the packagedata abstraction
class methodany instance variable  using the name of the class, followed by a dot, followed by the name of the method (the name of the class can be omitted when calling a class method in the current class)Methods   other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default   the behaviour of the classreturn statement unless it has a void return typeevery method of the classimplementing functions such as initializing a class, or operating on the complete set of instances of a class static methodstatic    1 class0 or more class variables of its classmethod   the class as a whole, not a particular instance of the class  the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclass   'this' value when it is executingA method that is invoked without reference to a particular object public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
deprecated method    Methods    other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    return statement unless it has a void return type         a class or an object method      the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obviousA method that has been replaced by a different method in a later version of Java public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
final method    Methods    other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    return statement unless it has a void return type to increase efficiency by eliminating dynamic method lookup       a class or an object method      the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassby any method  a comment at its head if the method is non-obviousA method that cannot be hidden or overridden public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
finalize method    Garbage Collection   finalizeother methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    return statement unless it has a void return type to clean up an object before the object is garbage collected       a class or an object methodan object before the object is garbage collected     the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obviousA method that is invoked before an object is discarded by the garbage collector, allowing it to clean up its state public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
instance method  public, protected or private Methods  the object itself using the 'this' keyword other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default a class such that there is no needless duplication of it, and such that it is useful in all the subclasses of the class in which it is defined  return statement unless it has a void return type     
public float credit(float amountToCredit) {
    balance = balance + amountToCredit;
    return balance;
}
 the behaviour of the objects in the class every class variable of its classa classthe current object's instance variablesmethod      the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obviousAny method that is invoked with respect to an instance of a class public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
long method    Methods    other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    more than 20 lines of code         a class or an object method      the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious shorter methodspublic except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
method declared in an interface    Methods    other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    return statement unless it has a void return type       public and abstract a class or an object method      the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious  static 
method declared without an access modifier  more private in a subclass      other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    return statement unless it has a void return type         a class or an object method      the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious  public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
overridden method    Methods    other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    return statement unless it has a void return type         a class or an object method 
super.myMethod(a,b)
    the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same nameuse the 'super' keyword a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious  public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
overriding method    Methods    other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    return statement unless it has a void return type         a class or an object method      the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious  public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
println method  Example Methods    other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    return statement unless it has a void return type     
System.out.println("This line will be printed");
   a class or an object        the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  specification  public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
private method    Methods    code in the same class    return statement unless it has a void return type         a class or an object method     subclassesthe super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious  public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
protected method    Methods    code in the same package as this class as well as code in any subclasses, even if they are not in the same package    return statement unless it has a void return type      private method in subclass  a class or an object method      the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious  protected or public in all subclasses 
public method    Methods    any code anywhere    return statement unless it has a void return type         a class or an object method     subclassesthe super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obvious  public in all subclasses 
recursive method    Methods    other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default  calling itself to solve a subproblem until the subproblem is simple enough to solve directly return statement unless it has a void return type     
//Recursive method to compute the nth power of 2

public static int recursivePowerOf2 (int n) {
   if (n == 0) {
	return 1;
   }
   else {
      return 2 * recursivePowerOf2(n-1);
   }
}
   a class or an object method      recursiona method in a superclass with the same name  a comment at its head if the method is non-obviousA method that calls itself public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 
substring method  Strings a new String with a sequence of characters from the original string  other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default    return statement unless it has a void return type to extract part of a string   
 String sub = "submariner".substring(0,3);  // = "sub"
   a class or an object        the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclassa method in a superclass with the same name starting position and ending position + 1specification  public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package 

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