Key Java Concepts

Understanding of the basic concepts of programming in Java, necessary to build a model with JAS-mine, can be achieved by following one of many books and introductory-level tutorials, a selection of which is linked here. However, it is useful to be familiar with some of the intermediate-level concepts, for example enums and reflection, while building your own model. This page contains a description of some of such concepts, with links to resources explaining them in more detail.

• Enum Types : a special data type that enables for a variable to be a set of predefined constants