Re: Can we over-load "+" in Java?

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:10:16 GMT
Message-ID:
<YyjOg.9757$Lb5.997@edtnps89>
"Shawn" <shaw@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:eec6sb$qpr$1@news.nems.noaa.gov...

Thank you very much for your any feedbacks.

============Person.java==========

public class Person {
private String sName;

public Person()
{
//empty
}


    Does it make sense to allow for a person without a name? If not, I'd get
rid of the empty constructor.

public Person(String s)
{
this.sName = s;
}

public String getName()
{
return sName;
}
}

=========Team.java=============
import java.util.*;

public class Team {
private Person leader;
private Vector members; //Vector is not good for this, but I am
familiar with it. So just for now.


    I recommend using a Set rather than a Vector or a List. Set doesn't
allow duplicates, which means a person maybe no be a member of the same team
twice, which intuitively makes more sense to me.

public Team()
{
this.leader = new Person();


    Similarly here, it might be better to let leader be "null" to present no
leader, rather than have a person with no name.

this.members = new Vector();
}

public void setTeamLeader(Person p)
{
this.leader = p;
}

public Person getLeader()
{
return leader;
}

public void addMemeber(Person p)
{
this.members.addElement(p);
}

public void removeMember(Person p)
{
this.members.removeElement(p);
}

public void showMembers()
{
Person temP;
temP = this.getLeader();
System.out.println("The team leader is: " + (String)temP.getName());
for (int i=0; i < members.size(); i++)
{
temP = (Person)members.elementAt(i);
System.out.println(temP.getName());
}
}
}

=========Department.java=======
import java.util.*;

public class Department {
private Vector teams;

public Department()
{
teams = new Vector();
}

public void addTeam(Team t)
{
teams.addElement(t);
}

public void removeTeam(Team t)
{
teams.removeElement(t);
}

public void showAllMemebers()
{
System.out.println("Our department has the following members:");
Team temT;
for (int i= 0; i < teams.size(); i++ )
{
temT = (Team)teams.elementAt(i);
temT.showMembers();
}
}
}

=========Demo.java==========
public class Demo {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Team dreamTeam = new Team();
Person person1 = new Person("John");
Person person2 = new Person("Ed");
Person person3 = new Person("Linda");

dreamTeam.addMemeber(person1);
dreamTeam.addMemeber(person2);
dreamTeam.addMemeber(person3);

dreamTeam.setTeamLeader(person2);

dreamTeam.showMembers();

dreamTeam.removeMember(person1);

dreamTeam.showMembers();

Team secondTeam = new Team();
Person person4 = new Person("Lee");
Person person5 = new Person("Tom");
secondTeam.addMemeber(person4);
secondTeam.addMemeber(person5);

secondTeam.setTeamLeader(person4);
secondTeam.showMembers();

Department newDept = new Department();
newDept.addTeam(dreamTeam);
newDept.addTeam(secondTeam);

newDept.showAllMemebers();
}
}


    So far looks good, but where's your method for merging teams or
splitting them?

    - Oliver

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