calling grand parent's constructor

[George Nan]

How do you call parent's parent constructor?
For example,
Class B extends C, Class A extends B,

in class A's constructor
public A() {
// how do you call C's constructor here?
}

[Paul Clapham]

You can't.

[Zenikko Sugiarto]

Logically, A would call super() to call B's constructor, and B would call super() to call C's constructor. If you want to call A's constructor like that, then there should be a good reason to do that. Personally to me it sounded a bit weird,maybe if you outline your problem here, ppl can contribue their approaches in designing the 3 class...

wrt to how to do that,
Perhaps what you want is, declare a protected init() method in C that does some sort of initialization. In C's constructor, don't do anything but call this method. That way, init() carries out whatever C's constructor may carry out.

And then. A can call init() - this approach is a bit lame and can only work if both B/A doesnt override init(). And a good design shouldnt rely things like that.
[ April 04, 2006: Message edited by: Zenikko Sugiarto ]