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Method Overloading Examples

 
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Can anyone explain what a method overloading is with the help of a simple example?
 
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Dinakar,
Welcome to JavaRanch!

Method overloading is when you have two or more methods with the same name and different arguments. There are many examples in articles on the subject. Do you have a more specific question on this?
 
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Hii Jeanne,
Thanks for yr reply. I was looking for some sample code for overloaded methods. Does the overloaded method need to be in the same class?

Thanks,
Dinakar.
 
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I am moving this to the Java In General (Beginner) forum.

Thanks

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Originally posted by Dinakar Manchikalapudi:
I was looking for some sample code for overloaded methods. Does the overloaded method need to be in the same class?


The article I linked to contains sample code. The overloaded method needs to be in the same class (or subclass). If they weren't, they would just be two methods that happened to have the same name.
 
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Hi,

Method overloading is a method with same name but with different parameters. For eg


Corresponding method will be called based on parameters that you are passing. For eg, if you call add(3.0,5.0) in your program
double version of the add method will be invoked

i hope it helps you understand the overloading concepts.
Mostly overloading will be used in the same class.

bye for now
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