Passing an instance is passing a function pointer. Along with a ton of other things, of course. Java introduced the concept of "single abstract method" types to do function pointer-like things.

If i have a function (void) X that takes an array of object in as a parameter and subsequently modifies said objects in the array, what will be the end result after the function terminates?<BR><BR>By ...

The Oracle Provider for OLEDB has some nice methods for retrieving an array from a PL/SQL procedure call and making it appear to be a Recordset object. It's a bit trickier to go in the other direction ...

Along with lambdas, Java SE 8 brought method references to the Java language. This tutorial offers a brief overview of method references in Java, then gets you started using them with Java code ...