This illustration shows the following:

• A public class Employee with two fields - id and lastName - and two methods - getId and setId.
• Two Employee instances.

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A label adds the following information about the class: "Employee class defines the fields that instances hold (state) and methods you can invoke on instances of Employee (behavior)."

A new instance of the Employee class is created when executing a constructor with an appropriate employee identifier and last name, as follows:

Employee emp = new Employee(215 63 2179, Smith);

A label adds the following information about instances: "Each instance of Employee holds it own state. You can access that state only if the creator of the class defines it in a way that provides access to you."

This example shows two new Employee instances created with the following values:

• id = 215 63 2179, lastName = Smith
• id = 372 74 3215, lastName = Jones

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