/**
 * Fig. 8.12: Employee.java
 * Static variable used to maintain a count of the number of
 * Employee objects in memory.
 * 
 * Benito Danneswara
 * 6 March 2017
 */

public class Employee
{
    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    private static int count = 0; // number of Employees created
    
    // initialize Employee, add 1 to static count and
    // output String indicating that constructor was called
    public Employee (String first, String last)
    {
        firstName = first;
        lastName = last;
        
        ++count; // increment static count of employees
        System.out.printf ("Employee constructor: %s %s; count = %d\n",
            firstName, lastName, count);
    } // end Employee constructor
    
    // get first name
    public String getFirstName()
    {
        return firstName;
    } // end method getFirstName
    
    // get last name
    public String getLastName()
    {
        return lastName;
    } // end method getLastName()
    
    // static method to get static count value
    public static int getCount()
    {
        return count;
    } // end method getCount
} // end class Employee