Method Overloading in java
Polymorphism is the
capability of an object to respond
uniformly to achieve specific behavior to the method calls of the same name
but with different implementations.
In java the concept of Polymorphism
is achieved in two ways:
1. Method Overloading
2. Method Overriding
Here we will discuss only the
concept of Method
Overloading:
-- In a class, the concept of method
overloading does not allow the external user to be aware about the
internal processing of the system
-- It just allows to user to use the different implementations of same name collected together and react appropriately to
the supplied parameters to get the desired output.
-- Method Overloading, allows
the user to achieve the compile time polymorphism.
-- Overloaded methods are always the part of the same class.
These methods have the same name, but they may take different input
parameters.
-- The arguments passed to a overloaded method may differ in type or in
number, or both.
-- Overloaded methods may have the same or different return types.
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