Clarification for Result

[RaviShankar Guna]

public class MainStaticEx {


public static void fun1(String s){
System.out.println("OK");
}

public static void fun1(Object obj){
System.out.println("Test");
}




public static void main(String args[]){

Throwable throwable = new Throwable();

fun1(null);

}

}


The Output is "OK" Why not "Test" Can any one tell please? I faced this in the interview

[Tyson Lindner]

The compiler goes for the more specific input parameters first if its valid. So since null is a valid input for String it will use that method.

[Roger Sterling]

null is a valid String type and the String function signature is the first one the JRE got to when it looked for a matching signature.

[Paweł Baczyński]

Roger Sterling wrote:null is a valid String type and the String function signature is the first one the JRE got to when it looked for a matching signature.

I think an important question is why is String found first?

The answer is as JLS says:

JLS wrote:The second step searches the type determined in the previous step for member methods. This step uses the name of the method and the types of the argument expressions to locate methods that are both accessible and applicable, that is, declarations that can be correctly invoked on the given arguments.

There may be more than one such method, in which case the most specific one is chosen. The descriptor (signature plus return type) of the most specific method is one used at run time to perform the method dispatch.