Why isn't the pointer notion used in Java? The majority of research believe that pointers are one of the most important aspects that allow programmers to introduce problems into their programs. When Java was designed, the goal was to build a language that was simple to learn and free of the flaws that plagued C++. It's not like in C/C++, where we have to use destructors to control memory. For memory management in Java, an automatic garbage collector is used. Actually, all Java references are po...