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This is my first ever post in this forum so first I want to say Hi to all.

Now I have been using JAVA Documentation from a long time.
And because it was released from sun too, I did not expect any flaw in it.
But now I don't trust it at all.
Reason is
For instance when I see System class Documentation in jdk-1_5_0-doc\docs\api\java\lang\System.html
It shows that System is a final class and it is also a direst subclass of Object.
like the below->>>>>>>
public final class System
extends Object

But when I see System.java file in jdk1.5.0_14\src\java\lang\System.java
It shows something like this

package java.lang;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.PropertyPermission;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.security.AccessController;
import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
import java.security.AllPermission;
import java.nio.channels.Channel;
import java.nio.channels.spi.SelectorProvider;
import sun.net.InetAddressCachePolicy;
import sun.nio.ch.Interruptible;
import sun.reflect.Reflection;
import sun.security.util.SecurityConstants;
import sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationType;


public final class System {
//Specific code
}




My Question is "Why this Difference Exists ?"
And what is the purpose of Documentation then If it does not provide the correct n Exact information?

I am preparing for scjp 310-055
I have been using java from last 3 years.


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[ April 21, 2008: Message edited by: Ben Souther ]
 
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Difference? I don't see a difference.

As you see in the source code, class System is indeed final. You never need to extend class Object explicitly - classes that don't extend a superclass implicitly extend class Object.

So the information in the documentation is correct.

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[ April 21, 2008: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]
 
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Thanks for telling me the naming policies..I have changed it.

Are you trying to say that every class that we construct is implicitly a direct subclass of Object class (that is on the top).Or it provides us its infomation through hierarchy.
like
Object-->SomeClassesToSupportThreading-->SomeClassesToSupportException-->etc etc-->UserClass

If it provides through hierarchy then isn't it important then whenever someone uses the direct sub classing from Object...he/she should provide the exact way of using.
Does it matter to subclass direct from Object, Or through hierarchy ??
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Java has a singly rooted hierarchy, meaning that a single class (java.lang.Object) is at the top of the hierarchy for all objects.

As the JLS states under section 4.3.2, "The class Object is a superclass (�8.1) of all other classes."
 
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