Day 18. Object Serialization and Reflection
An essential concept of object-oriented programming is the way it represents data. In an object-oriented language such as Java, an object represents two things:
Behavior—The things an object can do.
Attributes—The data that differentiates the object from other objects.
Combining behavior and attributes is a departure from many other programming languages. A program has typically been defined as a set of instructions that manipulate data. The data itself is a separate thing, as in the example of word-processing software. Most word processors are considered programs that are used to create and edit textual documents.
Object-oriented programming and other techniques are blurring the line between program ...
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