You can rework the Box example so that the dimensions of a box are automatically
initialized when an object is constructed. To do so, replace setDim( ) with a constructor.
Let's begin by defining a simple constructor that simply sets the dimensions of each box
to the same values. This version is shown here:
/* Here, Box uses a constructor to initialize the
dimensions of a box.
*/
class Box {
double width;
double height;
double depth;
// This is the constructor for Box.
Box() {
System.out.println("Constructing Box");
width = 10;
height = 10;
depth = 10;
}
// compute and return volume
double volume() {
return width * height * depth;
}
}
class BoxDemo6 {
public static void main(String args[]) {
// declare, allocate, and initialize Box objects
Box mybox1 = new Box();
Box mybox2 = new Box();
double vol;
// get volume of first box
vol = mybox1.volume();
System.out.println("Volume is " + vol);
// get volume of second box
vol = mybox2.volume();
System.out.println("Volume is " + vol);
}
}
When this program is run, it generates the following results:
Constructing Box
Constructing Box
Volume is 1000.0
Volume is 1000.0
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