When a class member is defined using static keyword in Java it is associated with the class rather than with the instances of the class. That gives rise to a question can we overload or override static methods in Java. This post tries to answer this question. Before that let’s…
Continue statement in Java is used to force the iteration of the loop. As soon as a continue statement is encountered in a loop, remaining statements in the loop that follow the continue statement are not executed and the control jumps to the next iteration of the loop. What happens…
Sometimes you may need to continue to the next iteration with in the loop with out executing the statements or you may need to terminate the loop altogether. For these two scenarios Java provides two control statements- continue and break. In this post we’ll go through Java break statement in…
Switch statement is Java’s selection statement which can have a number of possible execution paths. Another selection statement if-else-if ladder in Java also executes one of the code block based on the evaluation of the condition, switch-case in Java provides an easier and more readable alternative to do the same…
In Java programming language there are two selection statements if-else and switch statement to control the execution flow. This post talks about if and if-else statements in detail with examples. Java if-else statement Java if-else statement is used to evaluate a condition and take the execution path based on whether…
