Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

Section 3.2.2 AccountTest Class That Creates and Uses an Object of Class Account

• A class that creates an object of another class, then calls the object’s methods, is a driver class.

• Scanner method nextLine (p. 75) reads characters until a newline character is encountered, then returns the characters as a String.

• Scanner method next (p. 75) reads characters until any white-space character is encountered, then returns the characters as a String.

• A class instance creation expression (p. 75) begins with keyword new and creates a new object.

• A constructor is similar to a method but is called implicitly by the new operator to initialize an object’s instance variables at the time the object is created.

• To call a method of an object, follow ...