Chapter Review

Although this has been only a brief introduction to the Java language, it has provided you with enough of the fundamentals to get you started. You cannot build security on sand; rather, you need a foundation. There are many options and styles in Java programming, and we want to intentionally choose our coding practices to assure, enhance and maintain security.

We learned about packages and their relationship to directory paths. We also learned about the CLASSPATH environment variable.

There were a boatload of terms and concepts introduced in this chapter, including class, instance, object, method, member, and constructor. Also the modifiers static, public, and private were covered. And we discussed the main() method.

Finally, we ...

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