An initializer that makes complex class initialization possible. A class block initializer consists of the static keyword, an open brace character, initialization code, and a close brace character.

This code shows a marker class that displays a message when it's created, and a test class that creates an object of multiple types. The marker class helps keep track of when a field is initialized.

For example, the default option is to create a database initializer class that inherits from CreateDatabaseIfNotExists. With this option the first line of code that accesses the database triggers the ...

Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields, ...

I recently upgraded my development system to Ubuntu 8.04. Which has the upgraded version of gcc/g++ compared to Ubuntu 7.10.<br><br>Even though it's the same project, my global variables/objects are ...

So, I've got a subclass of ModelVisual3D that generates a 3d mesh, normals and triangle indices for a cylinder with subtractive voids and am doing some "low hanging fruits" optimizations. One item I ...