A Closer Look At Methods

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Call-by-value

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One way in which an argument can be passed to a method. This approach copies the value of an argument into the formal perimeter of the method. Used for Java's primitive types

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Call-by-reference

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How objects are passed as arguments to a method; the reference to the object, not the object itself, is passed

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Varargs method

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A method that takes a variable number of arguments; the parameter list is variable rather than fixed in length;

static void vaTest(int . . . v)

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Method overloading

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When two or more methods within the same class share the same name but their parameter declarations are different; the value of overloading is that it allows related methods to be accessed by use of a common name

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Access modifiers

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Java's mechanism for controlling member access. Public, private, protected

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Recursion

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Java's mechanism for a method calling itself

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Static

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Keyword used to declare both methods and variables that will be used independently of any object of that class.

static int totalNbrOfBicycles;