Thus, we might make the method return a string. To do this, we change the word “void” for the type of variable we want to return, and we add “return value ” at the end of the method.

As the above screen snapshot indicates, a synthetic method with the name access$100 has been created on the nested class NestedClass to provide its private String to the enclosing class. Note that ...

Although Java methods can only return a single object or primitive, this is really not much of a limitation when one considers that an object can be just about anything we want it to be. There are ...