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Creating Methods in Java

In JavaScript, we created functions; in Java, everything is object-oriented, so we'll be creating methods. A method is just a function that's part of a class or object. As an example, I'll create a method now named adder that will add two integers and return their sum.

To start, I'll need two numbers to add, and I'll let the user enter them as command-line arguments. I can read those arguments from the array passed to the main method, which I name args, and store them in integers value1 and value2, like this:

public class ch10_13 
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int value1 = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
        int value2 = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
    .
    .
    .
}

Now I display those values, pass them to the adder method, ...