When you mix a constructor declaration what are you really doing and why do you do this? Class1 Class2 extends Class1 public static void main(String args[ ]) Class1 c1 = new Class2( ) //why do you mix the constructor declaration? Class2 c2 = new Class1( ) //why do you mix the constructor declaration? Is this object reference conversion and casting? Thanks in Advance!
sanjays samadder
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hi what happens when you extend a class to another? it gives a call to the default constructor of the super class. here when you write class1 extends class2 it means that class1 has greater information than class2 that is just like a situation as with a float and an integer a float is bigger thyan an integer. here class1 is like a float but it is not excatly like primitive data conversion.class1 only has an outside reference to class2 the rule is you can have a super class reference holding a sub class object the vice verca is not true. why we do it?
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Cindy Glass
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Since Class2 extends Class1, Class2 is a particular sub-set or type of Class1. When you say Class1 c1 = new Class2(); You are saying "make a variable that can hold any type of Class1, then create a particular sub-set of Class1 (in this case Class2) and put it in that variable". From an OO point of view this is considered good form because it allows you to make changes later (like using Class3, another sub-set of Class1 instead) to what you put in the variable without having to worry about everyplace that variable is used. If you had made the variable a Class2 some of the uses of it might not handle a Class3 without modifications. But since you used a Class1 and BOTH cases fit into it - all is good. The second example you show of course will not work. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. All Class2's are Class1's but not all Class1's are Class2's.
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