Java - Class Inheritance 090906

 

This chapter is concerning with following tips:

1.        basic sense of inheritance of class

2.        Methods (no-parameter and having parameters) inheritance

3.        use of class Decimalformat

 

Referred to:

JDK 6 Documentation

Java How to Program by H. M. Deitel

 

1. Subclass inherits the attributes and behaviors of its superclass

Firstly

Subclass inherits the attributes and behaviors of its superclass, then we can add attributes and behaviors or override superclass behaviors to customize the class to meet our needs.

This means that the public interface of subclass (e.g., class Circle in following demo program) includes the superclass methods as well as the subclass methods itself (e.g., setRadius, get Radius, area, toString and constructors).

 

2. Methods (no-parameter and having-parameters) inheritance

Subclass should inherit all behaviors of its superclass as needed, particularly all constructors (without and having parameters) of its superclass.

 

3. DecimalFormat

public class DecimalFormat extends NumberFormat

DecimalFormat is a concrete subclass of NumberFormat that formats decimal numbers. It has a variety of features designed to make it possible to parse and format numbers in any locale, including support for Western, Arabic, and Indic digits. It also supports different kinds of numbers, including integers (123), fixed-point numbers (123.4), scientific notation (1.23E4), percentages (12%), and currency amounts ($123).

 

 

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Related testing classes include:

• Point class extends from Object
• Circle class extends from Point class
• main class

 

// Point.java package newpackage1; public class Point {     protected int x, y; //coordinates of the Point     // no-argument constructor     public Point() { setPoint(0, 0); }     public Point(int a, int b) { setPoint(a, b); }     // constructor     public void setPoint(int a, int b)     {         x = a;         y = b;     }     // get x coordinate     public int getX() { return x; }     // get y coordinate     public int getY() { return y; }     // convert the point into a String representation     @Override     public String toString()     { return "[" + x + ", " + y + "]"; } }   // Circle.java package newpackage1; public class Circle extends Point {  // inherits from Point     protected double radius;     // no-argument constructor     public Circle()     {         // implicit call to superclass constructor         setRadius(0);     }     // constructor     public Circle(double r, int a, int b)     {         super(a, b);  // call the superclass constructor         setRadius(r);     }     // set radius of Circle     public void setRadius(double r)     { radius = (r >= 0.0 ? r : 0.0); }     // get radius of Circle     public double getRadius() { return radius; }     // calculate area of Circle     public double area()     { return Math.PI * radius * radius; }     // convert the Circle to a String     public String toString()     {         return "Center = " + super.toString() +                 "; Radius = " + radius;     } }   // main.java import java.text.DecimalFormat; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; import newpackage1.Circle; public class Main {     public static void main(String[] args) {         Circle c = new Circle(2, 88, 110);         DecimalFormat precision1 = new DecimalFormat("0.00");         String output;         output = "X coordinate is " + c.getX() +                 "/nY coordinate is " + c.getY() +                 "/nRadius is " + c.getRadius();         c.setRadius(5.5);         c.setPoint(2, 9);         output = "/n/nThe new location and radius of c are/n" + c +                 "/nArea is " + precision1.format(c.area());         JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, output,                 "Demonstrating Class Circle",                 JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);         System.exit(0);     } }