Java Platform Standard Edition 8 Documentation

Oracle has two products that implement Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) 8: Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 8 and Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 8.

JDK 8 is a superset of JRE 8, and contains everything that is in JRE 8, plus tools such as the compilers and debuggers necessary for developing applets and applications. JRE 8 provides the libraries, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and other components to run applets and applications written in the Java programming language. Note that the JRE includes components not required by the Java SE specification, including both standard and non-standard Java components.

The following conceptual diagram illustrates the components of Oracle's Java SE products:

Description of Java Conceptual Diagram

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Generalization and Specialization

Generalization creates a concept with a broader scope. Specialization creates a concept with a narrower scope. Reusing the interface! Inheritance: get the interface from the general class. Objects related by inheritance are all of the same type.

The Class Concept

A class is a collection of objects (or values) and a corresponding set of methods. A class encapsulates the data representation and makes data access possible at a higher level of abstraction. Example 1: A set of vehicles with operations for starting, stopping, driving, get km/liter, etc. Example 2: A time interval, start time, end time, duration, overlapping intervals, etc. Example 3: A string, upper case, compare, lower case, etc. str.equals(otherStr) – class/Java style strcmp(str, otherStr) – C style

The Object Concept

An object is an encapsulation of data. An object has identity (a unique reference) social security number (cpr), employee number, passport number state, also called characteristics (variables) hungry, sad, drunk, running, alive behavior (methods) eat, drink, wave, smile, kiss An object is an instance of an class A class is often called an Abstract Data Type (ADT).

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