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Rohan said...

From Java 1.5 onwards, an overridding method in Java can return sub-class of return type of overridden method. Which means if your original method return java.lang.Object than a method which overrides this in subclass can return object of Subclass. for example

public class Shape{

public Shape getShape(){
return new Shape();
}
}

public class Circle{

@OVerride
public Circle getShape(){
return new Circle();
}

}
is legal in Java 5, 6 and Java 7.

May 20, 2013, 10:07:41 PM

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