Hi Steve,
Thanks for pointing it out. I had two books close to me right now. K&B calls it declaring or redefinging what I called shawdowing.
Java in Nutshell by David Flanagan calls it 'class method shawdoing'.
In many threads in this forum it is referred to as shadowing, if I recall correctly.
So I looked up the JSL. Lo and Be hold, it calls it hidding as you pointed out.
I guess I learned something new today. thanks
Barkat