Answer to Question #295399 in Java | JSP | JSF for Akshay

Question

Create a class Author whose attributes are: name, email, gender and books. Author constructor initializes the values

of name, email, gender and books. Define a static variable, method and block, and use this keyword in your code.

Answer 1

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Author {
    private String name;
    private String email;
    private String gender;
    private ArrayList<String> books;
    private static int authors;

    static {
        authors = 0;
    }

    public Author(String name, String email, String gender, ArrayList<String> books) {
        this.name = name;
        this.email = email;
        this.gender = gender;
        this.books = books;
    }

    public static int getAuthors() {
        return authors;
    }
}