Learn Java Programming - Introduction to Methods Tutorial

Methods provide a way for an object to perform some sort of action. A method is a member of a class and must be located inside the opening and closing braces of a class body. We can pass variable data to the method by specifying an optional comma-delimited list of parameters contained inside a pair of parentheses directly following the name of the method. The method can return data by specifying the return type directly in front of the method name.