In this use case, everybody uses UString, so you can effectively override. If you code the same method in the 'subclass', and refer to it using the subclass class then it will be called.
Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Gregory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When you do that, do remember that you cannot override static methods in the > same way that you can with instance methods. > > Gary > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 14:07 > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [lang] DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html > > Because I want to create a subclass of StringUtils. > > Use case: > I curently have a string utility class named UString. > I plan to change that to extend StringUtils once 2.0 is released. > (Because I'll get lots of extra methods for free) > But I can only do that if StringUtils is not final. > > Stephen > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:46 PM > Subject: Re: [lang] DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html > > > > > > Question just came up on [io]. > > > > Why do we not make our XxxUtil classes final again? :) Anyone remember or > > should I trawl through the mail from last year? > > > > Hen > > > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Plus1 > > > Stephen > > > > > > > from: Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:00:23 > > > > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > subject: Re: [lang] DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html > > > > > > > > > > > > Just noticed that DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html doesn't mention whether our > > > > XxxUtils class should be final or not. I'm pretty sure we ended up > making > > > > them not final. Anyone object to this before I add a line to the > guide? > > > > > > > > Hen > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
