Java How To Program, Late Objects, 11th Edition

25.7 Exploring a Class’s Members and Viewing Documentation

[Note: This section may be read after studying Chapter 5, Methods, 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 the current one. ...