Re: New bug identified: Method does not override from superclass?

I meant to mention that - I agree that would be the ideal solution but
part of our product has to support Java 1.4 so we can't make use of
@Override everywhere we'd like.

Rob

Daniel Le Berre wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> The @Override tag from Java 5 is especially dedicated to such a task.
> 
> The compiler will warn you if a method tagged with @Override does not
> really override a superclass method.
> 
>     Daniel
> 
> Rob Oxspring a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry if this has cropped up before, I've only just sub'd.
>>
>> I've just discovered a bug in our software that fits what I think is a
>> fairly common pattern.  The pattern is that a method signature has been
>> modified in a supertype but the change isn't reflected in a subtype and
>> so when the method is invoked on the subtype, the subtype specific
>> implementation is never used.  I ran FindBugs
>> (edu.umd.cs.findbugs.plugin.eclipse_1.1.1.v20061005-rc3.zip) which
>> didn't spot the problem.
>>
>> Could a rule be written to catch a method in a subclass that have the
>> same name as a method in the superclass, but doesn't override that
>> method?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
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