Imagine there is a class Employee. We create an object of EmployeeEmployee a= New Employee();If we are givingSystem.out.println(a);What gets printed?

It gives the memory location of Employee object.

AjayReddy
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Feb 8th, 2006
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devs

Feb 10th, 2006

it gives the classname and the memorylocation Eg:Employee@187c6c7 where 187c6c7 is the memory location.

suma

Feb 13th, 2006

It creats a Employee object at runtime & points to that location

ravikumarzee@gmail.com
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Feb 17th, 2006

It calls the toString() method of the class. If it is not overridden in your class it calls the default implemetation of toString() which typically prints getClass().getName() + '@' + Integer.toHexString(hashCode())

suresh.bandlamudi
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Mar 11th, 2006

it will print the memory location and class name in the order classname @ memorylocation ex:Employee@54654467 here Employee is the classname and 54674467 is the memory location

jay

Sep 17th, 2006

actually only ravi gave the exact answer : memory location of Employee object is the default behavior of toString() method inherited by universal Object class