Glossary
STAR
A compressed pellet of an explosive mixture, usually part of an aerial shell or a
Roman candle.
STATE
A combination of the current values of an object's attributes.
STATIC METHOD
A method that is bound to a class and that can be invoked against the class or against
an object whose declared type is the class.
STRATEGY
A plan, or approach, for achieving an aim given certain input conditions.
STREAM
A serial collection of bytes or characters, such as those that appear in a document.
STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE
A computer language for querying relational databases.
STUB
A method that does nothing; a class that implements an interface with methods that do
nothing.
TIER
A layer that executes on a computer.
