Interesting conversation....
BTW: a class cannot be both final and abstract. You can instantiate a final
class; you cannot instantiate an abstract class. You can override/overload
the methods of an abstract class; you cannot with a final class. You can
extend either.
Now, how 'bout them thar static inner classes?
:-)
Cheers!
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pier Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Simple but interesting..
> Milt Epstein at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Pier Fumagalli wrote:
> >
> >> Bo Xu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Rajeshwar Rao.V" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>> Why ServletContext is declared as absrtact?
> >>>> What does it mean by abstract interface?
> >>>> As I know , every interface is by default abstract...
> >>>> Am i missing something...
> >>>> -raj-
> >>>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> Hi :-) I read the source code of ServletContext.java in
> >>> jakarta-servletapi-4_0-b5.zip:
> >>>
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b5/src/
> >>>
> >>> it is "public interface ServletContext {...}", I don't find
> >>> "abstract", perhaps you use another version of
> >>> Servlet API?
> >>
> >> Java Language specification: An interface is ALWAYS all-abstract, all
its
> >> methods are abstract... :)
> >>
> >> Class -> can be instantiated as none of its methods are abstract
> >>
> >> Abstract Class -> cannot be instantiated as some of its methods are
abstract
> >> can be extended but not implemented
> >>
> >> Interface -> can be instantiated as all of its methods are abstract
> > ^^^
> > Was that supposed to be "cannot"?
> >
> >> can be extended by another interface and implemented by a
class
> >
> > I suppose for completeness under "Class" it should include:
> >
> > can be extended but not implemented
>
> You're CORRRRRRRRRRECT! :)
>
> > Unless it's final. (What about abstract final classes? :-).
>
> I believe that abstract and final cannot be specified on the same target
> without generating a compiler error...
>
> > Boy, when you try to be complete, you really get bogged down with
> > details :-).
>
> Heheheeh :)
>
> Pier
>
>
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