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The for-each construct can be used to hide the index variable and allows to simplify the code. The following program shows how to use the for-each loop to iterate through all the elements of an array of objects of type Person:

public class ForEachExample
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
	// Create an array of objects of type Person
	Person[] personArray = { 	new Person("Smith", 3260),
										new Person("Tomas", 1230),
										new Person("Alexia", 5290),
										new Person("Barbara", 2720),
										new Person("Terry", 1260)
									};
									
	System.out.println("NAME" + "\t" + "SALARY");
									
		// Print the contents of the array of objects of type Person
		for (Person p : personArray) 
		{
		System.out.println(p.ToString());
		}
	}
}

/*
Simple Java class that represents a type Person
*/
class Person
{
	String name;
	int salary;
	
	public Person(String n, int s)
	{
		name = n;
		salary = s;
	}
		
	public String ToString()
	{
	return name + "\t" + salary;	
	}
}

The program returns the following result:

NAME     SALARY
Smith    3260
Tomas  1230
Alexia   5290
Barbara 2720
Terry     1260