Using a Class

• This declares object today to have type class

  • Date today
  • Date() is Constructor of Date class which constructs an instance of Date class and sets default value to be the current date
  • new Date()
  • Note that there are two constructor methods in this class, as in general Java allows overloading of methods (but not operators).

• An example application using a method of the Date class:

  • import java.util.Date;
  • class DateTest
  • { public static void main ( String[ ] args)
  • { Date today = new Date();
  • Date early = new Date(1000);
  • if (today.after (early))
  • System.out.println( "Today is not early!");
  • }}

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