We know that all classes in Java extend the Object class. But methods in Object class are declared as public.I think if they were declared as protected, then also there wont have been any issue. So, what is the reason behind making them as public?
View Replieswhy interfaces inherit prototype of all the non final methods of the object class in itself? Object class is parent class of all the class and Interface is not the class.
View Replies View RelatedHow do you declare methods for a class within the class whilst objects of the class are declared else where?
Say for instance, I have a main class Wall, and another class called Clock, and because they are both GUI based, I want to put a Clock on the Wall, so I have declared an instance object of Clock in the Wall class (Wall extends JFrame, and Clock extends JPanel).
I now want to have methods such as setClock, resetClock in the Clock class, but im having trouble in being able to refer to the Clock object thats been declared in the Wall class.
Is this possible? Or am I trying to do something thats not possible? Or maybe I've missed something really obvious?
Assuming that we have two classes B and C which inherit from class A. What is the best way to pass a parameter from an object of class B to an object of class C by the use of class A without using static variable and without defining a get function in B?
View Replies View RelatedDoes child class gets a copy of the methods and variables of parent class?
public class test1 {
public static void main(String a[]) {
Child c = new Child();
c.print();
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why is the output 1?
I am working on a program that simulates a bug moving along a horizontal line, My code works correctly when I test it in it's own class but when I tried testing my constructor and methods in a test class I received an error saying, "package stinkBug does not exist" on lines with my methods. However, stinkbug is not a package.
Java Code:
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Write a class named Calculator add four methods to that class:
add(int a, int b)
sub(int a, int b)
mul(int a, int b)
div(int a, int b)
Then write a Tester class with main function and show the use of the methods in Calculator class..
I am being told to (assignment) create a new Bread Object in another class than the original. But after that it is asking for get and set methods. Get and set methods of what? It's parameters?
class Bread
{
private static String breadType; //private field to hold bread type
private static int numberOfCaloriesPerSlice; //private field to hold calories per slice
public static String getBreadType() //get method
{
return breadType;
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Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
ArrayList<rand> selectedRand = new ArrayList<Rand>();
selectedRand.add(new Rand(in.nextLine()));
I have created the most minimal code for creating an array list. I was wondering what the basic syntax of accessing objects methods that are within an Array List. So if I was to trying and get a method such as [.returnValue,] how would this look within a Rand object that is declared in a Array List Since you cannot simply declare a new Rand object and say:
newRandObject.returnValue();
And you must go through the actual slotted portion of the array list. I have searched the web and my text book for an example however none are provided.
Suppose you have a generic Dog class of the pet type that implements a DogInterface of the pet type. What is the difference between;
DogInterface<pet> Rex = new Dog<pet>();
and
Dog<pet> Tye = new Dog<pet>();
In what situations might you want to use Rex instead of Tye?
so, i was reading my java book and learning about objects and methods and it starts talking about Encapsulation and mentions that it's good practice to set instance variables as private and instead of accessing the instance variables directly, we should create a set method and get method to get and set the stuff we want to pass to the class containing the object...
for example, in this class, we're passing the integer 70 for object dog one and integer 8 for object dog two for the dog class... and these these 2 integers are sent to the setsize method so we're not accessing instance variable size directly.
i dont quite get it though....if we the programmer are the one deciding what size the integer is for the dog, and the setsize method takes the one.setSize(70) or (8) and puts them in setsize(int s) as s... but only to copy that integer stored in s back to private int size.... why do we even need to bother with making these two extra methods such as setSize, getSize?
in the book it says that... well what if the code gets into the wrong hand and someone writes something like one.setSize(0) then you would get a dog with size 0 which is essentially illogical. but then again, i'm the programmer, and i am the person who writes the code and passing the right integer.The reason for public and private... that part i understand... i can see why if a variable's data can get changed amidst the code during calculations and you dont want it to directly change the original variable and have it mess up the code, but this code from the book just a bad example of demonstrating the reason? since we manually pass the information ourselves and passing it to method setSize... and all setSize does is stores it in another integer, only to copy it right away to size (which is the original private variable we were tryign to protect?
Any simple code to demonstrate how the code might end up changing an instance variable and why we would want to protect it by using private?
class GoodDog {
private int size;
public int getSize() {
return size;
}
public void setSize(int s) {
size = s;
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Check out the following basic code (assume that dog has a method called bark):
Dog d = new Dog();
Object o = d;
o.bark(); // error
But why? Isn't o just a pointer to a memory address which has the dog object? If so, why can't the compiler see that the object has a method called bark? Or, to ask the question another way, why is Java designed to check the object reference to see if the method exists instead of the object itself?
"You might wonder what happens when a static synchronized method is invoked, since a static method is associated with a class, not an object. In this case, the thread acquires the intrinsic lock for the Class object associated with the class. "What is a Class object associated with a class. Google search rather finds material about the Object class.
View Replies View RelatedI have a project where I must sort a collection of songs by a number of fields: year, rank, title and artist. in the project, we must use certain methods and we cannot add others without getting marked down. Here are the specific requirements:
Sorting
The -sortBy option will cause the output to be sorted by a particular field. If this option is specified, the output should be ordered according to the field named. If there are ties, the tied songs should appear in same order in which they were in the input file. If no -sortBy option is specified, the output should maintain the order of the input file.
public void sortYear()
Order the songs in this collection by year (ascending).public void sortRank()
Order the songs in this collection by rank (ascending).public void sortArtist()
Order the songs in this collection lexicographically by artist (ascending, case-insensitive).public void sortTitle()
Order the songs in this collection lexicographically by title (ascending, case-insensitive).
Here is the relevant code:
SongCollection Class
Java Code: import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.*;
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I've tried a couple ways to do it, and they don't work. I'm aiming for functionality like I got with the regular for loop, but from an enhanced for loop. Is this simply beyond the scope of an enhanced for loop, or am I just not getting the right syntax?
TestObject to1 = new TestObject("first", 11);
TestObject to2 = new TestObject("second", 12);
TestObject to3 = new TestObject("third", 13);
TestObject to4 = new TestObject("fourth", 14);
TestObject to5 = new TestObject();
List<TestObject> testList;
testList = new ArrayList<TestObject>();
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The TestObject class is simply an int and a String, with getters getInt and getString. It all works fine with the regular for loop.
edit: I should probably mention that I know what I have in the enhanced for loop now will only display the class name and the hash. I've tried adding the .getString and .getInt, and tried a few other ways to make it work. I just reverted to this because it compiles and runs
I want to know is there any way we can call parent class method using child class object without using super keyword in class B in the following program like we can do in c++ by using scoop resolution operator
class A{
public void hello(){
System.out.println("hello");
}
}
class B extends A{
public void hello(){
//super.hello();
System.out.println("hello1");
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can we pass private final class object to another class constructor?
View Replies View RelatedHow to create object for "class B" and call the "function_B" from other different class D where class D has no connection with class A? Here is my program.
public class A(){
void print(){}
}
class B{
void function_B(){}
}
class C{
void function_C(){}
}
Here, A, B, C are in the same package. But class D is in different package.
I am a beginner here at JAVA and I am trying to program a Gratuity Calculator using both interface class and object class but it keeps on compiling with errors saying "cannot find symbol".I tried everything to fix it but it just keeps on stating symbol.
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public class GratuityCalculator extends JFrame
{
/* declarations */
// color objects
Color black = new Color(0, 0, 0);
Color white = new Color(255, 255, 255);
Color light_gray = new Color(192, 192, 192);
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This program is basically complete. It compiles and runs. It is a college course assignment that I pretty much completed but for the last part in which I'm suppose to change the values of all fields and display the modified values using a toString method. Modifying the values of the fields is where I am stuck. I don't think I need to create a new text data file to do this. The instructor only asked that all the values of fields be changed and this was the last part of the assignment so I don't think it involves creating additional ObjectOutputStream and ObjectInputStream objects. I'm getting a NullPointerException error on line 161.Here is the code. I'm also including the input data file.
//create program so that objects of class can be serialized, implements interface Serialiable
//create constructor with 4 parameters with accompanying get and set methods, Override toString method
//create text file with 5 records, create Scanner object,ObjectOutputStream, and ObjectInputStream
//create new ItemRecord object, change values of all fields in ItemRecord object using object's set methods
//modify ItemRecord object using toString method
[hightlight =Java]import java.io.Serializable;
public class ItemRecord implements Serializable
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This is the error message:
----jGRASP exec: java ItemRecordReport
Item Cost Quantity Description
Number
A100 $ 99.99 10 Canon PowerShot-135
A200 $149.99 50 Panasonic-Lumix T55
A300 $349.99 20 Nikon- D3200 DSRL
A400 $280.99 30 Sony- DSC-W800
A500 $ 97.99 20 Samsung- WB35F
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at ItemRecordReport.main(ItemRecordReport.java:161)
----jGRASP wedge2: exit code for process is 1.
----jGRASP: operation complete.
Here is the data file:
A100 99.99 10 Canon PowerShot-135
A200 149.99 50 Panasonic-Lumix T55
A300 349.99 20 Nikon- D3200 DSRL
A400 280.99 30 Sony- DSC-W800
A500 97.99 20 Samsung- WB35F
Here is the data file for the modified field values.
B100 98.00 10 ABC1010
B200 97.00 15 DEF1020
B300 96.00 10 GHI1030
B400 95.00 05 JKL1040
B500 94.00 01 MNO1050
The question pretty much says it all, but I tasked myself with creating a program about lemurs. There are multiple class files in this program. In the below code snippet, I have my TreeLemur.class which extends to the Lemur.class which extends to the Mammal.class. However, when I create a Tree Lemur object in the main program, it is returning null consistently from certain methods. What am I doing wrong here?
TreeLemur.class :
public class TreeLemur extends Lemur {
private String groupSize;
private String diet;
private String fur;
public void setGroupSize() {
groupSize = "
Group Size: Large";
}
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As of yet, I'm just trying to get Tree Lemur working properly to continue with creating the other if-branches within the main program.
Design a class named Person and its two subclasses named Student and Employee. Make Faculty and Staff subclasses of Employee. There is also a MyDate class as explained below. A person has a name, address, phone number, and email address. A student has a status (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior). Define the status as an integer which can have the value 0 (for "Freshman"),
1 (for "Sophomore"),
2 (for "Junior"), and
3 (for "Senior"),
but don't allow the status to be set to any other values. An employee has an office, salary, and dateHired. The dateHired is a MyDate field, which contains the fields: year, month, and day. The MyDate class does not explicitly inherit from any class, and it should have a no-arg constructor that sets the year, month, and day to the current year, month, and day. The MyDate class should also have a three-argument constructor that gets three int arguments for the year, month and day to set the year, month and day.
A faculty member has office hours and a rank. Define the rank as a String (for values like "Professor" or "Instructor"). A staff member has a title, which is also a String. Use data types for the fields as specified, or where one is not specified, use a data type that is appropriate for the particular field. Write a test program called TestEveryone.java that creates a Person, Student, Employee, Faculty, and Staff object, and invoke their toString() method (you don't need to call the objects' toString() method explicitly).
Note: Your MyDate.java class is the object class that your dateHired field is created from in the Employee.java class.
Do not use the Person, Employee or Faculty classes defined on pages 383 and 384 of the book. Create new ones.Here is the code I have so far concerning the employee and MyDate.
public class Employee extends Person {
private String office;
private double salary;
//private MyDate dateHired;
//7 argument constructor for employee
public Employee(String name, String phoneNumber, String email, String address, String office, double salary /*MyDate dateHired*/) {
super(name, phoneNumber, email, address);
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In the process of creating a new class, I need to move my main method from the class SaveDate to the class DynamicTest. Below I have listed the code of both classes.The objective is to be able to run my program from the DynamicTest Class. I need understanding the process of moving my main method to a different class and creating an Object of a class and calling its method.
public class SaveData {
private static final Map<String, Object> myCachedTreeMap = new TreeMap<String, Object>();
public static final List<String> getLines(final String resourceParam, final Charset charset) throws IOException{
System.out.println("Please get: "+resourceParam);
if (myCachedTreeMap.containsKey(resourceParam) ) {
// Use the cached file, to prevent an additional read.
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I have a value object class and it has the below member
XMLDocument request = null;
Should I instantiate it in the VO class as
XMLDocument request = new XMLDocument();
or leave it null and let the calling program instantiate it?
What's the proper way to do it for Value Object classes in java ?
Is it possible to have multiple methods in one class?And can I use the Scanner in methods other than the main method?
View Replies View Relatedthere are two classes here. I need to put the max and min methods should be in the tester class, but I have tried moving it to the tester class and it will not comply. When I run I get a list of errors of "Error:(43, 9) java: illegal start of expression
Error:(43, 16) java: illegal start of expression
Error:(43, 22) java: ';' expected
Error:(43, 41) java: '.class' expected
Error:(43, 52) java: illegal start of expression
Error:(43, 51) java: not a statement
Error:(43, 53) java: ';' expected
Error:(57, 9) java: illegal start of expression
Error:(57, 16) java: illegal start of expression
Error:(57, 22) java: ';' expected
Error:(57, 41) java: '.class' expected
Error:(57, 52) java: illegal start of expression
Error:(57, 51) java: not a statement
Error:(57, 53) java: ';' expected"
package A808;
public class FuleTesterV1
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String titleLines;
titleLines = "Yearly Gas Mi Calc | Assignment 8.08";
String TitleLines;
TitleLines = "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~";
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