Instantiating classes

- Okay, now comes the fun part.…Let's return to our Payroll application.…We have created the employee and the address classes…so let's take a look at the main class,…which I have open here, payroll.java.…You'll notice line 10 has "public static void main".…In this class, we're going to be able to create…objects for the address and the employee.…We're then going to print the values back out again.…We're going to try and change some of the values,…as well as use our "compareTo" methods.…

When we create a new object from a class definition,…it is actually called an "instance" of the class…and that's why we say we've instantiated a new object.…It is important to note that you must…instantiate an object by using a keyword "new".…We can create any number of employees…using this process.…For our example, I'm going to create two…employee objects but before I can create the employee,…I need to instantiate an address object.…

On line 11, I declare address "a1".…"a1" is my variable name.…I say "equals new", there's that key word…