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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles W. Kann)
Fri Dec 15 17:18:00 1995

From: "Charles W. Kann" <ckann@seas.gwu.edu>
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 14:37:11 -0500 (EST)

Hello,
    I have a problem which I am trying to implement in Java.  It involves
an array of objects from a hierarchy.  For example, consider the following:

class a 
{
}

class b extends a
{
}

class c extends a
{
}

I  want to create an array  which will have objects of type b or c.  For 
example, array[1] might be an object  of type b, and array[2] might be of
type c.  Objects of type b and c might have slightly different methods and
data.  But they are basically  examples of things of type a, and I want to 
therefore  store them in a single array.

How do I do this in Java?

Chuck Kann
ckann@seas.gwu.edu

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