Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

25.5 Declaring and Using Classes

[Note: This section may be read after studying Chapter 3, Introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and Strings.]

In Section 25.3, we demonstrated basic JShell capabilities. In this section, we create a class and manipulate an object of that class. We’ll use the version of class Account presented in Fig. 3.1.

25.5.1 Creating a Class in JShell

Start a new JShell session (or /reset the current one), then declare class Account—we ignored the comments from Fig. 3.1:

jshell> public class Account {
   …>    private String name;
   …>
   …>    public void setName(String name) {
   …>       this.name = name;
   …>    }
   …>
   …>    public String getName() {
   …>       return name;
   …>    }
   …> }
|  created class Account

jshell>

JShell recognizes when you enter the ...