002：Is Java “pass-by-reference” or “pass-by-value”?

题目：java是引用传递还是值传递？
例子

/* package whatever; // don't place package name! */

import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;

/* Name of the class has to be "Main" only if the class is public. */
class Main
{
    public static void main( String[] args ){
    Dog aDog = new Dog("Max");
    foo(aDog);

    if (aDog.getName().equals("Max")) { //true
        System.out.println( "Java passes by value." );

    } else if (aDog.getName().equals("Fifi")) {
        System.out.println( "Java passes by reference." );
    }
}

public static void foo(Dog d) {
    boolean b1= d.getName().equals("Max"); // true
    System.out.println("d.getName().equals(Max) "+b1);
    d = new Dog("Fifi");
    boolean b2 = d.getName().equals("Fifi"); // true
    System.out.println("d.getName().equals(Fifi) "+b2);
}
}
class Dog{
    private String name;

    public Dog(String name){
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getName(){
        return this.name;
    }
    public void setName(String name){
        this.name = name;
    }
}

输出

d.getName().equals(Max) true
d.getName().equals(Fifi) true
Java passes by value.

解释
In this example aDog.getName() will still return "Max". The value aDog within main is not overwritten in the function foo with the Dog “Fifi” as the object reference is passed by value. If it were passed by reference, then the aDog.getName() in main would return “Fifi” after the call to foo.
这个说的不明不白的

Java 编程语言只有值传递参数。当一个对象实例作为一个参数被传递到方法中时，参数的值就是该对象的引用一个副本。指向同一个对象,对象的内容可以在被调用的方法中改变，但对象的引用(不是引用的副本)是永远不会改变的。

Java参数，不管是原始类型还是引用类型，传递的都是副本(有另外一种说法是传值，但是说传副本更好理解吧，传值通常是相对传址而言)。

如果参数类型是原始类型，那么传过来的就是这个参数的一个副本，也就是这个原始参数的值，这个跟之前所谈的传值是一样的。如果在函数中改变了副本的 值不会改变原始的值.

如果参数类型是引用类型，那么传过来的就是这个引用参数的副本，这个副本存放的是参数的地址。如果在函数中没有改变这个副本的地址，而是改变了地址中的 值，那么在函数内的改变会影响到传入的参数。如果在函数中改变了副本的地址，如new一个，那么副本就指向了一个新的地址，此时传入的参数还是指向原来的 地址，所以不会改变参数的值。
参考来源
这个连接中给的例子

public class Main
{
     public static void main(String[] args)
     {
          Foo f = new Foo("f");
          changeReference(f); // It won't change the reference!
          modifyReference(f); // It will change the object that the reference variable "f" refers to!
     }
     public static void changeReference(Foo a)
     {
          Foo b = new Foo("b");
          a = b;
     }
     public static void modifyReference(Foo c)
     {
          c.setAttribute("c");
     }
}
 Foo createFoo()
{
   Foo foo = new Foo();
   return foo;
}

I will explain this in steps:

1- Declaring a reference named f of type Foo and assign it to a new object of type Foo with an attribute

Foo f = new Foo("f");


2- From the method side, a reference of type Foo with a name a is declared and it’s initially assigned to null.

public static void changeReference(Foo a)

3- As you call the method changeReference, the reference a will be assigned to the object which is passed as an argument.

changeReference(f);

4- Declaring a reference named b of type Foo and assign it to a new object of type Foo with an attribute “b”.

Foo b = new Foo("b");

5- a = b is re-assigning the reference a NOT f to the object whose its attribute is “b”.

6- As you call modifyReference(Foo c) method, a reference c is created and assigned to the object with attribute “f”.

7- c.setAttribute(“c”); will change the attribute of the object that reference c points to it, and it’s same object that reference f points to it.

本专题来源stackoverflow 标签是java的投票数比较高的问题以及回答，我只对上面的回答根据自己的理解做下总结。