Sun Certification Training Guide (310-025, 310-027): Java™ 2 Programmer and Developer Exams

Declaring Initializers

Java classes can contain statements that support the initialization of program variables. Initialization is typically performed when a field variable is declared. Variable initializers are executed when a new instance of a class is created. Other initializers, referred to as static initializers, are used to initialize static variables. Static initializers are covered later in this chapter in the “static” section.