Static Nested Classes - Java tutorial

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Java 6 tries hard to make Java applications easier to integrate in the desktop environment of various platforms. One of such welcome attempts is the new java.awt.Desktop class adapted from JDIC (JDesktop Integration Components).

In the real world of everyday computing (and development), there are many situations where "whipping up a Java program" to perform a task is either impractical or too time consuming. This article takes you into the underground world of FESI (Free EcmaScript Interpreter), where deploying the Java language in a quick-and-dirty fashion is the norm rather than the exception. Article includes code snipets.

Understand assignment operators.

Program performance is always a concern, even in this era of high-performance hardware. This article, the second in a two-part series, covers the statistics of benchmarking and offers a framework you can use to benchmark Java code ranging from self-contained microbenchmarks to code that calls a full application.

Now let's look at ways we can modify classes, methods, and variables. There are two kinds of modifiers -- access modifiers and non-access modifiers. The access modifiers allow us to restrict access or provide more access to our code.