Invoking child class methods without classloading parent class?

Question

Is it possible to compile java class child of parent class, that invoking method of child class does't requre load of parent class.

May be compile or run with some advanced option.

For example I have 3 classes

public class Parent {
    public void baseMethod(){
        System.out.println("Parent.baseMethod invoked");
    }
}

public class Child extends Parent{
     public void childMethod(){
         System.out.println("Child.childMethod invoked");
    }

}

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Child().childMethod();
    }
}

I compile them, and delete Parent.class.

I want to run

java Main

without exeption

Answer 1

No. Way. Java will always load the superclasses. The superclass is required to create the actual instance.

Creating a new Child will do an implicit call to Parent() and that's when you need the Parent class loaded.

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PS - doesn't even work if you just want to call a static method on the subclass, like that:

public class Parent {}
public class Child {public static void hello(){System.out.println("hello");}}
public class Caller{public static void main(String[] args){Child.hello();}}

deleting Parent.class will throw a NoClassDefFoundError even though no instance of Child was ever created.