A Programmer’s Guide to Java® SE 8 Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)

3. Declarations

3.1 Class Declarations

A class declaration introduces a new reference type. For the purpose of this book, we will use the following simplified syntax of a class declaration:

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class_modifiers class class_name                                      extends_clause                                      implements_clause // Class header{ // Class body          field_declarations          method_declarations          constructor_declarations}

In the class header, the name of the class is preceded by the keyword ...