Java How To Program, Late Objects, 11th Edition

25.5 Declaring and Using Classes

[Note: This section may be read after studying Chapter 7, Introduction to Classes and Objects.]

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. 7.1.

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. 7.1:

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 ...