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overriding conecpt(please help me)

 
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Hi,

I am arulraj, i have one doubt in the following code:

class A
{
int x=10;
}
class B
{
int x=20;
}

A a= new B();
System.out.println("value ofx:"+a.x);

What is the output of x?

I thought it will be 20 ,but jvm gives 10...



with respect to overriding, this is ok.... (the method in class b will be called). but for variable, it provide reverse opertion.........

May i know the reason that why is pointing to X containing in class A instead of B.
 
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The answer lies in runtime binding. For methods except private methods, JVM at runtime determines the actual type of a reference and invokes the appropriate method on the object. For instance variable, the binding is at compile time.

Hence the VM at compile time resolves reference a as a type A and thus displays 10.
 
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Thanks.............
 
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