Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

In Classes and objects in Java, you learned how to declare static fields and static methods as members of a class, and in Class and object initialization in Java, you learned how to declare static ...

As they exist outside the Java heap, the klasses do not require a Java object header, and they are not the same thing as the class objects used in reflection (which are genuine Java objects).