Re: "Hello world!" without a public class?

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Date:
Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:39:12 -0500
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On 1/6/2013 3:20 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

?class HelloWorldApp {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string.
     }
}
?

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/win32.html

   There is no ?public? in front of ?class? in Oracles Tutorial!

   What should I teach in my classes?

     1.) ?public class HelloWorldApp? (because this is most common IIRC)

     2.) ?class HelloWorldApp? (because this is in Oracles tutorial)

     3.) ?final class HelloWorldApp? (because this class is not designed
         for inheritance and Bloch says that one should not inherit from
         it in this case and the students can as well get used to this
         right from the start)

     4.) ?public final class HelloWorldApp? (combination of ?1.)? and ?3.)?)


#1

It is common.

It complies with one public class per file.

It makes logical sense that it is public because calling code
(the JVM) is not part of the package and there are really
no need to rely on the JVM being able to cheat.

The convention in practice is only to use final on classes
in special cases.

Arne

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