regarding DateFormat and calender

[Santhi Bharath]

hi,
while i am printing the objects of DateFormat and Calendar objects,i got something surprising like this

java.text.SimpleDateFormat@ce9bf0a5 -- for DateFormat

java.util.GregorianCalendar[all fields of Calender .....] -- for Calender


why we are getting sub class names instead of Calender and DateFormat?

[Jesper de Jong]

That's because class SimpleDateFormat does not override the toString() method from class Object, and class GregorianCalendar does.

If you print an object with System.out.println(...), then toString() will be called on the object to get a printable string.