The Concept of Scope
The term scope applies to the visibility of the programming elements within a program. This term is usually applied to the variables within the program. For Java, variables represent either primitive data types or object references. Java provides eight primitive data types: byte, char, short, int, long, float, double, and boolean. Everything else in the Java language is an object reference. Since object references can represent any valid Java class, there is a great deal of flexibility and extensibility in this process. Since for all effective purposes, a Java class is a data type, the Java language is type extensible—whatever data type is needed can be created as a class.
All Java references have some form of scope. For ...
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