a) How do you declare an object’s reference variable? What does it store?  b) When will a class have a default constructor? How do you create a default constructor in Eclipse?

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a) How do you declare an object’s reference variable? What does it store? 

b) When will a class have a default constructor? How do you create a default constructor
in Eclipse? 

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Reference variable:

It's not always the case that copies of an object are used when it's assigned to a variable or passed as an argument to a method. Instead, we make use of references to such objects, which simply means that a reference is an address used to denote the location of an object's variables and methods.

Example:

//Class definition

public class Student {

// field or data member or instance variable

int id;

String name;

//Main definition

public static void main(String args[]) {

// creating an object of Student

Student s1;

s1 = new Student();

// accessing member through reference variable

System.out.println(s1.id);

System.out.println(s1.name);

}

}

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