Java is an object-oriented language and so it surprises me when I don’t see objects used more often in Java code for organizing parameters AND return values in a nice package.

In the Second Edition of Effective Java, Josh Bloch introduces use of the builder pattern in Item #2 for dealing with constructors that require too many parameters.

If i have a function (void) X that takes an array of object in as a parameter and subsequently modifies said objects in the array, what will be the end result after the function terminates?<BR><BR ...