MethodOverriding

From APIDesign

Jump to: navigation, search

There was a fantastic set of blog posts on Java MethodOverriding by Jeroen Frijters. His blog is long time gone, and googling yields no good results. However I managed to dig the pointers out at

  • Java Method Overriding Is FUBAR Part 1 of ∞
  • Java Method Overriding Is FUBAR Part 2 of ∞
  • Java Method Overriding Is FUBAR Part 3 of ∞
  • Java Method Overriding Is FUBAR Part 4 of ∞
  • Java Method Overriding Is FUBAR Part 5 of ∞
  • Java Method Overriding Is FUBAR Part 6 of ∞

What can one say? In general: OOP sucks! When you have to live with it read ClarityOfAccessModifiers and never expose non-API superclasses and other elements in your API.

Personal tools
buy