What does Customer refer to in the following script?

Question

What does Customer refer to in the following script? Is it a class name?
What does return refer to?
public class Order
+{+
+// ...+
public Customer getCustomer()
+{+
return (Customer)m_cacheCustomers.get(m_customerId);
+}+
+// ...+
+}+
Thank you

Answer 1

jetq wrote:
What does Customer refer to in the following script? Is it a class name?
What does return refer to?
public class Order
+{+
+// ...+
public Customer getCustomer()
+{+
return (Customer)m_cacheCustomers.get(m_customerId);
+}+
+// ...+
+}+
Thank youHi Frank,
in this example the Customer is the Java class of objects which are put into a cache and is not Coherence specific at all. This is just the return type similarly to how a (stored) function in Oracle may return a row-type containing multiple values.
The return is a Java keyword which in a non-void method instructs the JVM to return the value of the expression following it from the method as the method return value if an expression follows it, and in a void method it simply returns from the method (no return value in this case, similarly to stored procedures).
Sorry for my saying so, really no offense intended, but judging from your questions you might want to attend at least a beginners Java course.
Best regards,
Robert