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Abstract Methods and Abstract Classes: Abstract Methods

Abstract methods are methods without a body that must be overridden in child classes, while abstract classes cannot be instantiated directly but are meant to be subclassed and can contain both abstract and normal methods. The example shows an abstract Shape class with an abstract draw() method that is implemented in child Rectangle and Triangle classes, demonstrating how abstract methods require subclasses to provide a method body.

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Abstract Methods and Abstract Classes: Abstract Methods

Abstract methods are methods without a body that must be overridden in child classes, while abstract classes cannot be instantiated directly but are meant to be subclassed and can contain both abstract and normal methods. The example shows an abstract Shape class with an abstract draw() method that is implemented in child Rectangle and Triangle classes, demonstrating how abstract methods require subclasses to provide a method body.

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Abstract methods and abstract classes:

Abstract Methods:

Abstract method is a method which does not have any body.

It is defined with the keyword “abstract”. An abstract method must be


overridden. This is something exactly opposite to final methods.

 It indirectly implies having child class for defining that method i.e. the
class also should be declared as abstract class. Hence, abstract methods
and abstract classes go hand in hand. To put it in simple words, when a
class has an abstract method, the class also should be declared as an
abstract class. Constructors and static methods can never be abstract.

Abstract classes:

Abstract classes are the classes which can be sub classed but not
instantiated.

An abstract class may have both abstract methods and normal


methods. We cannot use abstract classes to instantiate objects directly.
Abstract class objects can be instantiated using child classes. Abstract
classes are used to design a common framework comprising a set of
methods that have to be defined by all its child classes.

An abstract class is not required to have an abstract method in it. But


any class that has an abstract method in it must be declared as an
abstract class.

The following program demonstrates the usage of abstract methods


and abstract classes.

abstract class Shape

{
abstract void draw( );

class Rectangle extends Shape

void draw()

…….

class Triangle extends Shape

void draw()

…….

class Test

public static void main(String as[])

Shape s1;
s1=new Rectangle();

s1.draw();

s1=new Triangle();

s1.draw();

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