Calling base class methods

[GR]

Hi,

Ive worked more on C++ rather than JAVA but I keep visiting
it now and then to see how certain features in C++ map to
JAVA.
A question that I wanted to ask was this:
Is it possible, in JAVA, to call super class methods in a derived class when
the derived class is several steps down in the hierarchy?
In other words say class 1 is the base class. Class 2 is derived from class
1. Class 3 is derived from class 2. Can class 3 somehow call class 1's methods?


In C++ you'd do this by explicitly qualifying the method by prefixing it
with the name of the base class i.e class 1 like
this:
...
1::method_name() ;

Can this be accomplished in JAVA?
From the top of my head, my guess is NO!

Tell me if Im wrong?
Thanks
Gautam

[Paul Clapham]

GR <gautamcr@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3a098d6e$1@news.devx.com...
>
> Hi,
>
> Ive worked more on C++ rather than JAVA but I keep visiting
> it now and then to see how certain features in C++ map to
> JAVA.
> A question that I wanted to ask was this:
> Is it possible, in JAVA, to call super class methods in a derived class
when
> the derived class is several steps down in the hierarchy?
> In other words say class 1 is the base class. Class 2 is derived from
class
> 1. Class 3 is derived from class 2. Can class 3 somehow call class 1's
methods?
>
>
> In C++ you'd do this by explicitly qualifying the method by prefixing it
> with the name of the base class i.e class 1 like
> this:
> ..
> 1::method_name() ;
>
> Can this be accomplished in JAVA?
> From the top of my head, my guess is NO!
>
> Tell me if Im wrong?
> Thanks
> Gautam

You are correct. Class 3 can call class 2's methods by using
super.method_name() but that's as far as it goes.

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