A Java program is basically a collection of classes.
A class is defined by a set of declaration statements and methods containing
executable statements.
Most statements contain expressions which describe the actions carried out on
data.
Smallest individual units in a program are known as tokens.
In simple, a Java program is a collection of tokens, comments and white space.
Java language includes five types of tokens:
1) Reserved keywords
2) Identifiers
3) Literals
4) Operators
5) Separators
Keywords :
Keywords are an essential part of a language definition.
Java language has reserved words as keyword.
Keywords have specific meaning in Java we cannot use them as names
for variables, classes, methods and so … on.
All keywords are to be written in lower case letters.
Java is case sensitive.
Identifies :
Identifiers are programmer designed tokens.
They are used for naming classes, methods, variable objects, labels,
packages and interfaces in a program.
Java identifiers follow the following rules.
1) They can have alphabets, digits & underscore & dollar sign characters.
2) They must not begin with a digit.
3) Upper case & lower case letters are distinct.
4) They can be of any length.
Literal :
Literals in Java are a sequence of character (digits, letters and other character)
that represent constant values to be stored in variables.
Integer literals
Floating point literals
Character literals
String literals
Boolean literals
Operators :
An operator is a symbol that takes one or more argyments and operates on
them to produce a result.
Separators :
Separators are symbols used to indicate where groups of code are divided and
arranged.
Parentheses ( ) : Used to enclosed parameters in method definition.
Braces { }:
1. Define a block of code for classes methods and local scope.
2. Automatically initialize values to array.
Brackets [ ] : Used to declare array types.
Semicolon (;) : Used to separate statement.
Comma (,) : Used to separate identifiers in a variable deceleration.
