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Declare a class

Each public class is declared in a file with the name of the class followed
by ".java". Inside of a class definition body are the fields, constructors, and
methods.


To declare a class in Java use:



public class NameOfClass {

  // fields

  // constructors

  // methods

}

or 


public class NameOfClass 

{ 

  // fields

  // constructors

  // methods

}

Example:


public class Person

{

  // fields

  private String firstName;

  private String lastName;



  // constructors

  public Person () {}



  public Person(String theFirstName, String theLastName)

  {

     this.firstName = theFirstName;

     this.lastName = theLastName;

  }



  // methods 

  public String getFirstName() { return this.firstName; }



  public String getLastName() { return this.lastName; }



  public void setFirstName(String name) { this.firstName = name; }



  public void setLastName(String name) { this.lastName == name; }



  public String toString() { return this.firstName + " " + this.lastName; }

}

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