Re: OffTopic - strange overloaded method behaviour

[Sourabh Kulkarni]

Hi Sameer,     Doesn't the actual type of object come into picture here? -sourabh ----- Original Message ----- From: Kumar Sameer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:04 PM Subject: Re: OffTopic - strange overloaded method behaviour Hi Sourabh,   'value' is declared as an 'Object' so validate((Tag)tag,value) will resolve to validate(Tag,object).   Regards   Sameer -----Original Message----- From: Sourabh Kulkarni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 March 2002 11:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OffTopic - strange overloaded method behaviour The invoking code is in the same class. The relevant part is given below    .........    String tagname, msg;   Object value, tag;   Map.Entry entry;    tag = tagMap.get(tagname);    .......     file://if not null and valid, then remove it from the valuesMap and send for writing    if ((tag != null) && (value != null) && validate((Tag) tag, value)) {         file://do something     }   I am having an entry in the map as "name"=Float . At execution time, I expected the method validate(Tag, Number) to be invoked rather than validate(Tag, Object). But I observed that validate(Tag, Object) was invoked. I am confused by this behaviour. Am I missing something ?   TIA, -sourabh ---- Sourabh Kulkarni Embedded Systems Group. rapidEffect (P) Ltd.25,Napier Road, Pune 411 001 Tel./Fax. +91-20-6363250   www.rapideffect.com