Still trying to understand object oriented programming in Java

Question

Assuming there is a class named Hello, How would I declare variables named var1 and var2 to be references to objects in the class Hello? I assumed it would just be Hello var1, var2;

Also to just construct an instance of the object of the class Hello using the default constructor would it just be Hello hello = new Hello();

Finally my last question is if I were to instantiate an object of the class Hello using the default constructor and assign that object to the varaible named var1 it would just be Hello var1 = new Hellow();. How would I assign the reference to the object named var1 to the variable named var2

And I know there is a term to describe the current state of the variables var1 and var2, but I cannot think of it

Answer 1

Just given test example to illustrate the things

public class Hello {
    Hello var1, var2;
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Hello h1 = new Hello();
        h1.var1 = h1;
        System.out.println("h1.var1 ---- "+ h1.var1);

        Hello h2 = new Hello();
        h1.var2 = h2;
        System.out.println("h1.var2 ---- "+ h1.var2);

        h1.var2 = h1.var1;

        System.out.println("h1.var1 ---- "+ h1.var1);
        System.out.println("h1.var2 ---- "+ h1.var2);
    }
}


    Output :- 

    h1.var1 ---- Hello@19e0bfd
    h1.var2 ---- Hello@139a55
    h1.var1 ---- Hello@19e0bfd
    h1.var2 ---- Hello@19e0bfd

Assuming there is a class named Hello, How would I declare variables named var1 and var2 to be references to objects in the class Hello? I assumed it would just be Hello var1, var2;

You can see there are two variables declared of same class which can be reference to Hello class instance.

Also to just construct an instance of the object of the class Hello using the default constructor would it just be Hello hello = new Hello();

Yes there is default constructor associated with each class so you can do initialize class like this.

Finally my last question is if I were to instantiate an object of the class Hello using the default constructor and assign that object to the varaible named var1 it would just be Hello var1 = new Hellow();. How would I assign the reference to the object named var1 to the variable named var2

As you see the output the hash code of var2 is same as var1 after h1.var2 = h1.var1 statement. This states that var2 previous reference is replaced by var1 reference. So here objects are not copied but references to objects are copied. Check the same hashcode of var1 and var2 .

Thats it!.