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Q8. What Is Method Overloading and Method Overriding?: Let's Take A Look at The Example Below To Understand It Better

Method overloading allows methods in the same class to have the same name but different parameters. It is compile-time polymorphism. Method overriding requires inheritance and allows subclasses to provide a specific implementation of a method declared in the parent class, changing the existing behavior at runtime. Private and static methods cannot be overridden, but new methods can be created in the subclass with the same signature, which hides the parent method instead of overriding it.

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Q8. What Is Method Overloading and Method Overriding?: Let's Take A Look at The Example Below To Understand It Better

Method overloading allows methods in the same class to have the same name but different parameters. It is compile-time polymorphism. Method overriding requires inheritance and allows subclasses to provide a specific implementation of a method declared in the parent class, changing the existing behavior at runtime. Private and static methods cannot be overridden, but new methods can be created in the subclass with the same signature, which hides the parent method instead of overriding it.

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Q8. What is method overloading and method overriding?

Method Overloading :

 In Method Overloading, Methods of the same class shares the same name but each
method must have a different number of parameters or parameters having different
types and order.
 Method Overloading is to “add” or “extend” more to the method’s behavior.
 It is a compile-time polymorphism.
 The methods must have a different signature.
 It may or may not need inheritance in Method Overloading.

Let’s take a look at the example below to understand it better.

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1 class Adder {

2 Static int add(int a, int b)

{
3
return a+b;
4
}
5
Static double add( double a, double b)
6
{
7 return a+b;
8 }
9 public static void main(String args[])

10 {
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System.out.println(Adder.add(11,11));
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System.out.println(Adder.add(12.3,12.6));
13
}}
14
Method Overriding:  

 In Method Overriding, the subclass has the same method with the same name and
exactly the same number and type of parameters and same return type as a
superclass.
 Method Overriding is to “Change” existing behavior of the method.
 It is a run time polymorphism.
 The methods must have the same signature.
 It always requires inheritance in Method Overriding.

Let’s take a look at the example below to understand it better.

1
class Car {
2
void run(){
3
System.out.println(“car is running”);
4
}
5 Class Audi extends Car{
6 void run()
7 {

8 System.out.prinltn("Audi is running safely with 100km");

9 }

public static void main( String args[])


10
{
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Car b=new Audi();
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b.run();
13
}
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}
15

Q9. Can you override a private or static method in Java?

You cannot override a private or static method in Java. If you create a similar method
with the same return type and same method arguments in child class then it will hide
the superclass method; this is known as method hiding. Similarly, you cannot
override a private method in subclass because it’s not accessible there. What you
can do is create another private method with the same name in the child class. Let’s
take a look at the example below to understand it better.

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