extends Object explictly specified

[Brad Cadle]

Why is it I have seen some code (most notably in the Microsoft Visual j++ source book by Cross and Saganich) that has in a class defintiion extends Object explicitly defined when according to thinking in Java, all java classes implicitly extend Object anyway?


-Brad

[Zafir Anjum]

There could be two reasons.


1. The author probably have a strong C++ background and feel more comfortable

always specifying the base class.


2. They want to highlight the fact that the new class has a close relationship

with the Object class and that it may actually be overriding some of the Object

methods.


I haven't read the book. This is just speculation.