NAMES FOR DANCERS AND OTHER GRACEFUL SOULS ... Posted 19 Jan 96 by Me'ira a.k.a JOYFUL DANCER. kharding@lamar.colostate.edu. Permission granted to publish/distribute. On Doomsday you will be called by your names and the names of your fathers - so choose beautiful [graceful] names! -- The Prophet Muhammed.
The Java programming language supports multiple inheritance of type, which is the ability of a class to implement more than one interface. An object can have multiple types: the type of its own class and the types of all the interfaces that the class implements.
The first rule is applied at compile time, the second at runtime: (1) what methods the Java compiler ALLOWS to be called on a variable and (2) how Java determines WHICH METHOD (in the context of inheritance and overriding) to call.