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1. Difference between object reference declaration and object construction?    stackoverflow.com

Consider a class named Calculator with the following code:

class Calc extends Calculator {

    Calculator calculator;              ...

2. Is there a difference between initializing a variable using new, followed by assignment and just assignment on initialization?    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to learn Java. I have a custom class, which has attributes:

public class Person{
    private String name;
}

public class foo{
   ...

3. Difference between an object and a reference    coderanch.com

Hai, I am having two quiries please solve me out as soon as possible The first one is that I want to know the basic difference between an object and a reference. My second query is that when we type a command to execute a java program I mean c:>java filename After this command is typed what does the Java Virtual ...

4. difference between object and reference    coderanch.com

When we write, ClassA obj = new ClassA(); what is the reference and what is the object. I am reading about garbage collection and I am really getting confused by therse two terms. When we say that an object is garbage collected, do we mean the memory allocated by new to obj is being garbage collected. Is there any text that ...

5. Difference between Reference Data Types & Own Objects    coderanch.com

This has nothing to do with the objects, but how you are using them. In the string case, you are changing one of the references to point to a different object. In the second case, you are changing the object itself -- and since the two references point to the same object, they should both change. Henry

6. Can I know the difference between Reference variable & Object.    coderanch.com

Hi ALL Good explanation Burkhard! I want to explain it in simple ways. Statement1: Demo var; where, Demo - class name var - is the reference variable that refers to the object's start memory location. At this point, the actual object is not created. It will be created in the next statement. Statement1: var = new Demo(); This statement contains a ...

7. Difference betwen reference variable & object    coderanch.com

8. difference between object and object reference.    coderanch.com

Objects are what gets created with the "new" (in this case some String with a value of "Vijay") and the references are all the variables that have a type of some Class (s and s2) and can potentially refer an object (a instantiation or creation of that Class). That code as written doesn't compile for me. I get an error on ...

9. Difference between Object reference variable and primitive variable    coderanch.com

Well,variables comes in two flavors, primitive and Object reference. Primitive variables contains fundamental values, like int, float, boolean etc, where "Object reference" contains/refers the handle of the Object that has been created using the "new " syntex. Here int i = 10; means ==> 'i' is the name of the primitive variable, whose data type is integer (means it can hold ...

10. whats the difference between Objects and reference variables?    coderanch.com

oh thanks Rahul i just found a few statements can you give an example for each please... A reference variable can be of only one type and once declared that type can never be changed(although the object it references can change) A reference is a variable , so it can be reassigned to other object(unless the reference is declared final) A ...

11. Difference between Object and Reference, in this Scenario.    coderanch.com

12. Difference between reference variable and object ?    forums.oracle.com

No. There are still two distinct String objects with distinct contents, though one of them may be eligible for GC. (Well, okay, in this case it won't be, because it's a String literal, but in general it would be.) Both reference variables hold the same value. They both hold references to the same String object.