A Java class is expected to have all functions defined. The purpose of defining the methods is to decide on its expected functionality and behavior.
Only in case of Interfaces we declare methods but leave the method definitions to the implementing classes.
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Fields and methods. Fields are variables defined at the class level, i.e., they are available for all methods. Methods are the equivalent of functions / procedures, but they are defined for a specific class.
A factory class is any class which is used to create instances of other classes. The methods which create those classes are the factory methods. For example, the BorderFactory class has a variety of methods for creating instances of the different types of the Border classes. BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(); BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(); ...
Final classes are sealed classes in java I guess.
sizeof is not a keyword in Java but many classes have size() or length() methods, which can mean the number of elements, characters, etc. depending on the class.
You can only have one non-inner public classes per java file and that class name must match the filename. The java file can also have any number of inner classes and anonymous classes.