What is the difference between reference and object ?
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 Q1. What is the difference between reference and object ?Core Java
Ans. Object is an entity in Java , i.e which has a state ( instance variables ) and methods attached to it ( static or non static , through class definition ). References are the identifiers that are used to point to objects.

For example -

Employee emp = new Employee();
emp = new Employee();

In this code, emp is the reference that gets assigned to the new object created by the new operator. In the second line , we have assigned the same reference to another object. So with these 2 lines of code, we have 2 objects in memory with reference emp now pointing to second object.

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