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List of Java keywords
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In the Java programming language, a keyword is one of 53 reserved words[1] that have a predefined meaning in the language; because of this, programmers cannot use keywords as names for variables, methods, classes, or as any other identifier.[2] Due to their special functions in the language, most integrated development environments for Java use syntax highlighting to display keywords in a different colour for easy identification.
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1 List
2 Reserved words for literal values
3 Unused
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
List[edit]
abstract
Abstract is used to implement an abstraction in Java. A method with no definition must be declared as abstract and the class containing it must be declared as abstract. You cannot instantiate abstract classes. Abstract methods must be implemented in the sub classes. You cannot use the abstract keyword with variables or constructors.
assert (added in J2SE 1.4)[3]
Assert describes a predicate (a true–false statement) placed in a Java program to indicate that the developer thinks that the predicate is always true at that place. If an assertion evaluates to false at run-time, an assertion failure results, which typically causes execution to abort. Optionally enable by ClassLoader method.
boolean
Defines a boolean variable for the values "true" or "false" only. By default, the value of boolean primitive type is false.
break
Used to end the execution in the current loop body.
byte
The byte keyword is used to declare a field that can hold an 8-bit signed two's complement integer.[4][5] This keyword is also used to declare that a method returns a value of the primitive type byte.[6][7]
case
A statement in the switch block can be labeled with one or more case or default labels. The switch statement evaluates its expression, then executes all statements that follow the matching case label; see switch.[8]
catch
Used in conjunction with a try block and an optional finally block. The statements in the catch block specify what to do if a specific type of exception is thrown by the try block.
char
Defines a character variable capable of holding any character of the java source file's character set.
class
A type that defines the implementation of a particular kind of object. A class definition defines instance and class fields, methods, and inner classes as well as specifying the interfaces the class implements and the immediate superclass of the class. If the superclass is not explicitly specified, the superclass is implicitly Object. The class keyword can also be used in the form Class.class to get a Class object without needing an instance of that class. For example, String.class can be used instead of doing new String().getClass().
continue
Used to resume program execution at the end of the current loop body. If followed by a label, continue resumes execution at the end of the enclosing labeled loop body.
default
The default keyword can optionally be used in a switch statement to label a block of statements to be executed if no case matches the specified value; see switch.[8][9] Alternatively, the default keyword can also be used to declare default values in a Java annotation. From Java 8 onwards, the default keyword is also used to specify that a method in an interface provides the default implementation of a method.
do
The do keyword is used in conjunction with while to create a do-while loop, which executes a block of statements associated with the loop and then tests a boolean expression associated with the while. If the expression evaluates to true, the block is executed again; this continues until the expression evaluates to false.[10][11]
double
The double keyword is used to declare a variable that can hold a 64-bit double precision IEEE 754 floating-point number.[4][5] This keyword is also used to declare that a method returns a value of the primitive type double.[6][7]
else
The else keyword is used in conjunction with if to create an if-else statement, which tests a boolean expression; if the expression evaluates to true, the block of statements associated with the if are evaluated; if it evaluates to false, the block of statements associated with the else are evaluated.[12][13]
enum (added in J2SE 5.0)[3]
A Java keyword used to declare an enumerated type. Enumerations extend the base class Enum.
extends
Used in a class declaration to specify the superclass; used in an interface declaration to specify one or more superinterfaces. Class X extends class Y to add functionality, either by adding fields or methods to class Y, or by overriding methods of class Y. An interface Z extends one or more interfaces by adding methods. Class X is said to be a subclass of class Y; Interface Z is said to be a subinterface of the interfaces it extends.
Also used to specify an upper bound on a type parameter in Generics.
final
Define an entity once that cannot be changed nor derived from later. More specifically: a final class cannot be subclassed, a final method cannot be overridden, and a final variable can occur at most once as a left-hand expression on an executed command. All methods in a final class are implicitly final.
finally
Used to define a block of statements for a block defined previously by the try keyword. The finally block is executed after execution exits the try block and any associated catch clauses regardless of whether an exception was thrown or caught, or execution left method in the middle of the try or catch blocks using the return keyword.
float
The float keyword is used to declare a variable that can hold a 32-bit single precision IEEE 754 floating-point number.[4][5] This keyword is also used to declare that a method returns a value of the primitive type float.[6][7]
for
The for keyword is used to create a for loop, which specifies a variable initialization, a boolean expression, and an incrementation. The variable initialization is performed first, and then the boolean expression is evaluated. If the expression evaluates to true, the block of statements associated with the loop are executed, and then the incrementation is performed. The boolean expression is then evaluated again; this continues until the expression evaluates to false.[14]
As of J2SE 5.0, the for keyword can also be used to create a so-called "enhanced for loop",[15] which specifies an array or Iterable object; each iteration of the loop executes the associated block of statements using a different element in the array or Iterable.[14]
if
The if keyword is used to create an if statement, which tests a boolean expression; if the expression evaluates to true, the block of statements associated with the if statement is executed. This keyword can also be used to create an if-else statement; see else.[12][13]
implements
Included in a class declaration to specify one or more interfaces that are implemented by the current class. A class inherits the types and abstract methods declared by the interfaces.
import
Used at the beginning of a source file to specify classes or entire Java packages to be referred to later without including their package names in the reference. Since J2SE 5.0, import statements can import static members of a class.
instanceof
A binary operator that takes an object reference as its first operand and a class or interface as its second operand and produces a boolean result. The instanceof operator evaluates to true if and only if the runtime type of the object is assignment compatible with the class or interface.
int
The int keyword is used to declare a variable that can hold a 32-bit signed two's complement integer.[4][5] This keyword is also used to declare that a method returns a value of the primitive type int.[6][7]
interface
Used to declare a special type of class that only contains abstract or default methods, constant (static final) fields and static interfaces. It can later be implemented by classes that declare the interface with the implements keyword. By the help of interface we can easily achieve multiple inheritance in java. We can define one interface within another interface.
long
The long keyword is used to declare a variable that can hold a 64-bit signed two's complement integer.[4][5] This keyword is also used to declare that a method returns a value of the primitive type long.[6][7]
native
Used in method declarations to specify that the method is not implemented in the same Java source file, but rather in another language.[7]
new
Used to create an instance of a class or array object. Using keyword for this end is not completely necessary (as exemplified by Scala), though it serves two purposes: it enables the existence of different namespace for methods and class names, it defines statically and locally that a fresh object is indeed created, and of what runtime type it is (arguably introducing dependency into the code).
package
Java package is a group of similar classes and interfaces. Packages are declared with the package keyword.
private
The private keyword is used in the declaration of a method, field, or inner class; private members can only be accessed by other members of their own class.[16]
protected
The protected keyword is used in the declaration of a method, field, or inner class; protected members can only be accessed by members of their own class, that class's subclasses or classes from the same package.[16]
public
The public keyword is used in the declaration of a class, method, or field; public classes, methods, and fields can be accessed by the members of any class.[16]
return
Used to finish the execution of a method. It can be followed by a value required by the method definition that is returned to the caller.
short
The short keyword is used to declare a field that can hold a 16-bit signed two's complement integer.[4][5] This keyword is also used to declare that a method returns a value of the primitive type short.[6][7]
static
Used to declare a field, method, or inner class as a class field. Classes maintain one copy of class fields regardless of how many instances exist of that class. static also is used to define a method as a class method. Class methods are bound to the class instead of to a specific instance, and can only operate on class fields. (Classes and interfaces declared as static members of another class or interface are actually top-level classes and are not inner classes.)
strictfp (added in J2SE 1.2)[3]
A Java keyword used to restrict the precision and rounding of floating point calculations to ensure portability.[7]
super
Inheritance basically used to achieve dynamic binding or run-time polymorphism in java.Used to access members of a class inherited by the class in which it appears. Allows a subclass to access overridden methods and hidden members of its superclass. The super keyword is also used to forward a call from a constructor to a constructor in the superclass.
Also used to specify a lower bound on a type parameter in Generics.
switch
The switch keyword is used in conjunction with case and default to create a switch statement, which evaluates a variable, matches its value to a specific case, and executes the block of statements associated with that case. If no case matches the value, the optional block labelled by default is executed, if included.[8][9]
synchronized
Used in the declaration of a method or code block to acquire the mutex lock for an object while the current thread executes the code.[7] For static methods, the object locked is the class's Class. Guarantees that at most one thread at a time operating on the same object executes that code. The mutex lock is automatically released when execution exits the synchronized code. Fields, classes and interfaces cannot be declared as synchronized.
this
Used to represent an instance of the class in which it appears. this can be used to access class members and as a reference to the current instance. The this keyword is also used to forward a call from one constructor in a class to another constructor in the same class.
throw
Causes the declared exception instance to be thrown. This causes execution to continue with the first enclosing exception handler declared by the catch keyword to handle an assignment compatible exception type. If no such exception handler is found in the current method, then the method returns and the process is repeated in the calling method. If no exception handler is found in any method call on the stack, then the exception is passed to the thread's uncaught exception handler.
throws
Used in method declarations to specify which exceptions are not handled within the method but rather passed to the next higher level of the program. All uncaught exceptions in a method that are not instances of RuntimeException must be declared using the throws keyword.
transient
Declares that an instance field is not part of the default serialized form of an object. When an object is serialized, only the values of its non-transient instance fields are included in the default serial representation. When an object is deserialized, transient fields are initialized only to their default value. If the default form is not used, e.g. when a serialPersistentFields table is declared in the class hierarchy, all transient keywords are ignored.[17][18]
try
Defines a block of statements that have exception handling. If an exception is thrown inside the try block, an optional catch block can handle declared exception types. Also, an optional finally block can be declared that will be executed when execution exits the try block and catch clauses, regardless of whether an exception is thrown or not. A try block must have at least one catch clause or a finally block.
void
The void keyword is used to declare that a method does not return any value.[6]
volatile
Used in field declarations to specify that the variable is modified asynchronously by concurrently running threads. Methods, classes and interfaces thus cannot be declared volatile, nor can local variables or parameters.
while
The while keyword is used to create a while loop, which tests a boolean expression and executes the block of statements associated with the loop if the expression evaluates to true; this continues until the expression evaluates to false. This keyword can also be used to create a do-while loop; see do.[10][11]
Reserved words for literal values[edit]
true
A boolean literal value.
null
A reference literal value.
false
A boolean literal value.
Unused[edit]
const
Although reserved as a keyword in Java, const is not used and has no function.[2][1] For defining constants in Java, see the final keyword.
goto
Although reserved as a keyword in Java, goto is not used and has no function.[2][1]
See also[edit]
Java annotation
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Flanagan 2005, p. 20.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Java Language Specification - Section 3.9: Keywords". The Java Language Specification. Oracle. February 13, 2012. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Java Language Keywords". The Java Tutorials. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Primitive Data Types". The Java Tutorials. Sun Microsystems, Inc. February 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Flanagan 2005, p. 22.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Returning a Value from a Method". The Java Tutorials. Sun Microsystems, Inc. February 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Flanagan 2005, pp. 66-67.
^ Jump up to: a b c "The switch Statement". The Java Tutorials. Sun Microsystems, Inc. February 14, 2008. Retrieved 2014-12-18.
^ Jump up to: a b Flanagan 2005, pp. 46-48.
^ Jump up to: a b "The while and do-while Statements". The Java Tutorials. Sun Microsystems, Inc. February 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
^ Jump up to: a b Flanagan 2005, pp. 48-49.
^ Jump up to: a b "The if-then and if-then-else Statements". The Java Tutorials. Sun Microsystems, Inc. February 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
^ Jump up to: a b Flanagan 2005, pp. 44-46.
^ Jump up to: a b "The for Statement". The Java Tutorials. Sun Microsystems, Inc. February 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
Jump up ^ Flanagan 2005, pp. 50-54.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Controlling Access to Members of a Class". The Java Tutorials. Sun Microsystems, Inc. February 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
Jump up ^ "Java Object Serialization Specification version 1.5.0". Sun/Oracle. 2004. 1.5 Defining Serializable Fields for a Class. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
Jump up ^ Grosso, William (November 21, 2001). "Java RMI: Serialization". ONJava. O'Reilly Media. Declaring serialPersistentFields. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
External links[edit]
Gosling, James; Joy, Bill; Steele, Guy; Bracha, Gilad (June 2005). Java Language Specification (Third ed.). Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 978-0-321-24678-3. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
Flanagan, David (March 2005). Java in a Nutshell (Fifth ed.). O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-00773-7. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
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Country
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For other uses, see Country (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Constituent country.
2011 map showing countries with full recognition and one UN non-member state; some disputed territories are not shown
A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state[citation needed], as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise[clarification needed] of legal jurisdiction.[citation needed]
Sometimes countries refers both to sovereign states and to other political entities,[1] while other times it refers only to states.[2] For example, the CIA World Factbook uses the word in its "Country name" field to refer to "a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states".[3][Note 1]
Contents
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1 Etymology and usage
2 Sovereignty status
3 See also
4 Notes
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
Etymology and usage[edit]
The word country comes from Old French contrée, which derives from Vulgar Latin (terra) contrata ("(land) lying opposite"; "(land) spread before"), derived from contra ("against, opposite"). It most likely entered the English language after the Franco-Norman invasion during the 11th century.
In English the word has increasingly become associated with political divisions, so that one sense, associated with the indefinite article – "a country" – through misuse and subsequent conflation is now a synonym for state, or a former sovereign state, in the sense of sovereign territory or "district, native land".[4] Areas much smaller than a political state may be called by names such as the West Country in England, the Black Country (a heavily industrialized part of England), "Constable Country" (a part of East Anglia painted by John Constable), the "big country" (used in various contexts of the American West), "coal country" (used of parts of the US and elsewhere) and many other terms.[5]
The equivalent terms in French and other Romance languages (pays and variants) have not carried the process of being identified with political sovereign states as far as the English "country", instead derived from, pagus, which designated the territory controlled by a medieval count, a title originally granted by the Roman Church. In many European countries the words are used for sub-divisions of the national territory, as in the German Bundesländer, as well as a less formal term for a sovereign state. France has very many "pays" that are officially recognised at some level, and are either natural regions, like the Pays de Bray, or reflect old political or economic entities, like the Pays de la Loire.
A version of "country" can be found in the modern French language as contrée, based on the word cuntrée in Old French,[5] that is used similarly to the word "pays" to define non-state regions, but can also be used to describe a political state in some particular cases. The modern Italian contrada is a word with its meaning varying locally, but usually meaning a ward or similar small division of a town, or a village or hamlet in the countryside.
Sovereignty status[edit]
See also: List of sovereign states
The term "country" can refer to a sovereign state. There is no universal agreement on the number of "countries" in the world, since a number of states have disputed sovereignty status. There are 206 sovereign states, of which 193 states are members of the United Nations, two states have observer status at the U.N. (the Holy See and Palestine), and 11 other states are neither a member or observer at the U.N. All are defined as states by declarative theory of statehood and constitutive theory of statehood. The latest proclaimed state is South Sudan in 2011.
Although not sovereign states, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are usually referred to as countries (depending on context), which collectively form the United Kingdom—a sovereign state that is also referred to as a country.[6][7][8][9] The Kingdom of Denmark, a sovereign state, comprises Mainland Denmark and two nominally separate countries—the Faroe Islands, and Greenland—which are almost fully internally self-governing. The Kingdom of the Netherlands, a sovereign state, comprises four separate countries: Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten. In the Kingdom of Spain, the regions of Galicia, the Catalan speaking parts (Catalonia, Valencia and Balearic Islands) and the Basque Country are sometimes recognized as non-sovereign states or group of states (namely, autonomous communities under the Spanish law), specially within nationalist movements[clarification needed].
The degree of autonomy of non-sovereign countries varies widely. Some are possessions of sovereign states, as several states have overseas territories (such as French Polynesia or the British Virgin Islands), with citizenry at times identical and at times distinct from their own. Such territories, with the exception of distinct dependent territories, are usually listed together with sovereign states on lists of countries, but may nonetheless be treated as a separate "country of origin" in international trade, as Hong Kong is.[10][11][12]
See also[edit]
Geography portal
City network
Constituent state
List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent
Lists of countries and territories
Micronation
Nation
Sovereign state
Notes[edit]
^ General information or statistical publications that adopt the wider definition for purposes such as illustration and comparison include:.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Tjhe Kwet Koe v Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs [1997] FCA 912 (8 September 1997), Federal Court (Australia).
Jump up ^ Rosenberg, Matt. "Geography: Country, State, and Nation". Retrieved 2008-11-12.
Jump up ^ "The World Factbook". CIA. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
Jump up ^ OED, Country
^ Jump up to: a b John Simpson, Edmund Weiner (ed.). Oxford English Dictionary (1971 compact ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198611862.
Jump up ^ "Legal Research Guide: United Kingdom". Law Library of Congress. 2009-07-23. Retrieved 2013-03-29. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the collective name of four countries, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The four separate countries were united under a single Parliament through a series of Acts of Union.
Jump up ^ "Countries Within a Country". 10 Downing Street. 2003-01-10. Archived from the original on 2008-09-09. Retrieved 2009-09-22. The United Kingdom is made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Jump up ^ "United Kingdom — Geography". Commonwealth Secretariat. 2009-09-22. Archived from the original on 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2009-09-22. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a union of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Jump up ^ "Travelling Europe — United Kingdom". European Youth Portal. European Commission. 2009-06-29. Archived from the original on 2010-02-05. Retrieved 2009-09-22. The United Kingdom is made up of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Jump up ^ "Made In The British Crown Colony". Thuy-Tien Crampton. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07.
Jump up ^ "MATCHBOX LABEL, MADE IN HONG KONG". delcampe.net. Archived from the original on 1 April 2014.
Jump up ^ "Carrhart Made In Hong Kong?". ContractorTalk.
Jump up ^ "Greenland Country Information". Countryreports.org. Retrieved 2008-05-28. "The World Factbook – Rank Order – Exports". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
Jump up ^ "Index of Economic Freedom". The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
Jump up ^ "Index of Economic Freedom – Top 10 Countries". The Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
Jump up ^ "Asia-Pacific (Region A) Economic Information" (PDF). The Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-11-14. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
Jump up ^ "Subjective well-being in 97 countries" (PDF). University of Michigan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
Jump up ^ Mercer's 2012 Cost of Living Survey city rankings Archived July 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.. Mercer.com (2008-12-18). Retrieved on 2013-07-12.
Jump up ^ EIU Digital Solutions. "Country, industry and risk analysis from The Economist Intelligence Unit – List of countries – The Economist Intelligence Unit". eiu.com.
Jump up ^ Hanke, Steve H. (May 2014). "Measuring Misery around the World". Cato Institute.
Further reading[edit]
Defining what makes a country The Economist
External links[edit]
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