/* This class along with IncrementClassUser demonstrate the difference between 
 * passing a primitive datum and an object as a parameter, and what can happen
 * in the method invoked which alters the object and the primitive parameters */
 
public class IncrementClass {
    private int x;					// a datum to be manipulated

    public IncrementClass(int value) {	// constructor to initialize the datum
		x = value;
    }

   public void inc( )				// simple method that will alter this object's instance datum
   {
          x++;
   }

   public int getValue( ) {			// accessor
          return x;
   }
}