casting problem

[Savvy Makol]

Kindly somebody explain the difference between upcasting and downcasting.When do we get classcast exception.

[John Lee]

hi:
please refer to Inheritance and Exceptions, Object-oriented Programming in Java, and Items in java.jdk.

[David O'Meara]

Don, it might be more useful if you distilled these articles into an answer. I'm a big fan of reading articles, but sometimes people just want their question answered.

[John Lee]

hi:
i will.