Yes, and in Java, capital-O Object is primarily used as a class, not as an object that you work with directly! Alan Kay himself said he regrets coining the ter

Yes, and in Java, capital-O Object is primarily used as a class, not as an object that you work with directly! Alan Kay himself said he regrets coining the term as "object" oriented, and wishes he had emphasized "messages": https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging