When you create a new object in Java,<br><br>aClass a = new aClass();<br><br>memory is dynamically allocated on the process's heap to store the object instance. A reference to this object is created ...

For the past 7 years I've been working almost exclusively with Java, with a bit of csh/bash scripting and a few simple single-line fixes to C code. My C++ experience is pre-1997. Temporarily, however, ...