Chapter 8 Class Inheritance and Interfaces.ppt

Chapter 8 Class Inheritance and Interfaces Superclasses and Subclasses Keywords: super Overriding methods The Object Class Modifiers: protected, final and abstract Abstract classes Polymorphism and Object Casting Interfaces Inner Classes Superclasses and Subclasses Creating a Subclass Creating a subclass extends properties and methods from the superclass. You can also: Add new properties Add new methods Override the methods of the superclass Example 8.1Testing Inheritance Objective: Create a Cylinder object and explore the relationship between the Cylinder and Circle classes. Using the Keyword super To call a superclass constructor To call a superclass method Example 8.2 Overriding Methods in the Superclass The Cylinder class overrides the findArea() method defined in the Circle class. The Object Class The Object class is the root of all Java classes. The equals() method compares thecontents of two objects. The toString() method returns a string representation of the object. The clone() method copy objects The Object Class, cont. The equals() method compares thecontents of two objects. The default implementation of the equals method in the Object class is as follows: public boolean equals(Object obj) { return (this == obj); } The Object Class, cont. The toString() method returns a string representation of the object. The default implementation returns a string consisting of a class name of which the object is an instance, the at sign (@), and a number representing this object. The clone() method copy objects The Object Class, cont. To create a new object with separate memory space, you need to use the clone() method, as follows: newObject = someObject.clone(); NOTE: Not all objects can be cloned. For an object to be cloneable, its class must implement the java.lang.Cloneable interface. Interfaces are introduced in the section Interfaces, in this chapter. The protected Modifier The protected modifier can be applied on data and methods in a class. A