sateesh

• Nov 16th, 2006

 

Method signature contains

the type of the parameters

the no.of paramaters and

the order of paramaters

Method signatune is mainly used in methd overriding

chinnu

• Nov 25th, 2006

 

writing two r more methods with same name ,same signature is called method overiding. return is also part of the method signature.

manu

• Nov 27th, 2006

 

No. Return Type is not part of a method signature....signature consists of argument data type, no of arguments and order of arguments...if u try to write two functions having the same signature ie. as said by me in the previous line and then you try to write different return types for the two functions it will show "Function already exists" or "Duplicate function Not allowed" according to ur IDE. i.e the compiler is treating these two as the same method and not over rided or over loaded methods.

hi_goura

 Profile Answers by hi_goura 

• Dec 5th, 2006

 

return-type is not a part of method signature. Because return comes after you call the method.While calling the method you need only method name and arguments (of course number, type and order) and you dont need to know what is the return-type. After execution of the method is finished you bother about the value return by the method. If two methods are exactly same in name and arguments and different in return type only how will JVM know which method to call??? Not possible... right??? So there should be something different in method signature to differentiate the two methods.

rajnish

• Dec 15th, 2006

 

because return type does not affedt the overriding or overloading

santh kumar

 Profile Answers by santh kumar 

• Dec 19th, 2006

 

It's java's Specification that describes like that the return type is not a part of method signature, whether it is method overloading or overriding. U clearly know that the type of parameters can be un-simillar in overloading and but should be similar in overriding.U know one thing , i specifically tested on the system.what will happend if i used different type of parameters even in Overriding? can u guess? Yes! it's true. it(compiler) doesnt show any errors.it just treat that method as regular method.

Ashok

• Aug 3rd, 2017

 

Return Type is not part of a method signature..Kindly check again and dont put wrong answer on portal because it will confuse to other.