rariedel

 Profile Answers by rariedel 

• May 23rd, 2008

 

In the simple example given, there is no particular advantage; however, in many situations it is often useful to interact with the derived class using only the interface contract from which is was derived.

Using constructs of this type are useful when it is not known in advance which of its many potential derived class implementations will be actually be instantiated. This allows generic programming constructs to be applied to a plethora of potential run-time variations.

zizou

 Profile Answers by zizou 

• May 26th, 2008

 

Hi
this technique is much more advantageuous as it'easy to cast the created object in runtime easily to another subclass of the list super classs.

interviewprep9

 Profile Answers by interviewprep9 

• Jun 15th, 2008

 

Can someone please explian more eloborately on this one? Using List list = new ArrayList(), will I be invoking list's methods or the ArrayList methods with the reference variable list

manjot.kr

 Profile Answers by manjot.kr 

• Jun 27th, 2008

 

List is an interface where as Arraylist is a class.
Arraylist implements all the methods in List...
So the arraylist's methods are invoked as the method body is present in Arralist

R.Raj

 Profile Answers by R.Raj 

• Jul 5th, 2008

 

Yes,It is possible to invoke the methods of ArrayList using the reference variable list.
Infact it is used for that purpose only. 

shailesh.pandit

 Profile Answers by shailesh.pandit 

• Jul 11th, 2009

 

We may decide later to use the LinkedList instead of ArrayList, in this situation we just need to replace the new ArrayList() part with new LinkedList() if we keep the referance variable as List interface.

whereas if we keep ArrayList as the referance variable it will be cumbersome.