Java Programming/Glossary

This is a glossary of the book. A annotation A means of attaching metadata to methods and classes directly in the source code. B byte code Code interpreted by the Java virtual machine; the target code of Java compilation. G generics A means of passing a data type as an argument of another type, such as Vector<JButton>; P primitive type One of the types that do not require allocation on stack, such as int, byte, or long. R reflection A way of treating classes and methods as objects on their own, to be referred to during runtime, for instance by queringsimilar to puering September 2022 a particular class about its methods and their parameters.