Re: Use of @Override when implementing interfaces
On 12/6/2013 2:01 AM, Fredrik Jonson wrote:
Y HA wrote:
class Task implements Runnable {
@Override
public void run() {
System.out.println("Run method overridden in Task class");
}
}
Sorry, I can't help with the problem, but the code made me curious.
Is it commont practice to use @Override when implementing interface
methods? Assuming that the method has not been implemented by a
superclass.
Obviously, the annotation is technically allowed, still it isn't really
possible to override an implementation that does not exist. And it
doesn't add type safety to the code, if your method signature doesn't
match the method signature of the interface, the implementing class
won't compile.
@Override was added in 1.5, but I believe that @Override was first
added in 1.6.
@Override in case of super class with non abstract method makes a
lot of sense as it turns some runtime bugs into compile time bugs.
@Override in case of super class with abstract method or
interface is a bit less obvious.
I don't use it myself.
But Eclipse generate them, so they are probably relative common.
Arne
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