Re: Problems with inheritance!

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:18:20 -0500
Message-ID:
<NSAmh.64092$Rg5.577835@weber.videotron.net>
"nullstring" <leerstring@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1167746693.338850.294360@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com...

Ok!
But let's say the methods:
- public void meth1();
- public void meth2();
are all the same, independent on the derivated subclass!

only the method:
- public void meth3();
variates from subclass to subclass....

When I use an Interface, I have to write duplicated code, havent't I?
I know (and read everytime) about "prefer interfaces to abstract
classes", but how can this correlate with "don't write redundant code"
?


public abstract class SuperClass {
  public void methodWhichIsTheSameForAllClasses() {
    /*Some code, not duplicated anywhere.*/
  }

  public abstract void
methodWhichIsPresentInAllClassesButWhoseImplementationDiffers();
}

public class Subclass1 extends SuperClass {
  public void
methodWhichIsPresentInAllClassesButWhoseImplementationDiffers() {
    /*Subclass1 implementation, not duplicated anywhere.*/
  }

  public void methodOnlyPresentInSubclass1() {
    /*Some code, not duplicated anywhere.*/
  }
}

public class Subclass2 extends SuperClass {
  public void
methodWhichIsPresentInAllClassesButWhoseImplementationDiffers() {
    /*Subclass2 implementation, not duplicated anywhere.*/
  }

  public void methodOnlyPresentInSubclass2() {
    /*Some code, not duplicated anywhere.*/
  }
}

    - Oliver

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