Super inside constructor of an extended subclass

[ekte spiriopoulos]

what is super(); in the subclass ? there is somewhere else? what it does ?

publc class animals extends biology{

public animals()// default constructor ? or not?
{
super();
}

public animals(String name,string age){

super(name,age); //what it does here?
if(weight>100){
System.out.println("fat");
}else{
System.out.println("thin");
}

}


}

[Knute Snortum]

super() is a way to access the superclass's constructor.

(BTW, you should be formatting your code correctly by now.)

[ekte spiriopoulos]

Knute Snortum wrote:super() is a way to access the superclass's constructor.

(BTW, you should be formatting your code correctly by now.)

so the super(name,age) its from the superclass (inside the constructor) biology?

[Knute Snortum]

Calling super(name, age) means that the class biology has a constructor with this signature:

 public biology(String name, String age) {

That constructor gets called with the arguments from animals(String name, String age) {