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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition
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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey Deitel
June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
Pearson
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25.7 Exploring a Class’s Members and Viewing Documentation

[Note: This section may be read after studying Chapter 6, Methods: A Deeper Look, and the preceding portions of Chapter 25.]

The preceding section introduced basic auto-completion capabilities. When using JShell for experimentation and discovery, you’ll often want to learn more about a class before using it. In this section, we’ll show you how to:

  • view the parameters required by a method so that you can call it correctly

  • view the documentation for a method

  • view the documentation for a field of a class

  • view the documentation for a class, and

  • view the list of overloads for a given method.

To demonstrate these features, let’s explore class Math. Start a new JShell session or /reset ...

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