Abstract class extending concrete classes

Question

I have an abstract class that extends a concrete class. But I'm confused about how to use it. How am I supposed to instantiate the concrete class with the methods in the abstract class like I would normally do the other way around? Or is there another way to instantiate the classes?

Answer 1

You can have a sort of implementation. What I mean by this is like: Let's say you have an Animal class. The Animal class has a method names jump() and then another class that extends Mammal. The Mammal class is abstract. What my understanding is that you would like whatever class extends Mammal to HAVE to override the jump() method. This is what I believe is your question. To achieve this, I would say to create an abstract method and call that in the original method. What I mean by this is like so:

public class Animal
{
    public final String name;
    public final int weight;

    public Animal(String name, int weight)
    {
        this.name = name;
        this.weight = weight;
    }

    public void jump()
    {
        System.out.println(name + " Jumped");
    }
}

Then you have the Mammal class:

public abstract class Mammal extends Animal
{
    public Mammal(String name, int weight)
    {
        super(name, weight);
    }

    public abstract void jumpMammal();

    @Override
    public final void jump()
    {
        jumpMammal();
    }
}

If any class attempts to override the Mammal class, they are required to override the jumpMammal() method, therefore running in the jump() method.