Specifications

Sun Services
Java™ Programming Language Module 6, slide 34 of 43
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sun Services, Revision F
The Object Class
• The Object class is the root of all classes in Java.
• A class declaration with no extends clause implies
extends Object. For example:
public class Employee {
...
}
is equivalent to:
public class Employee extends Object {
...
}
• Two important methods are:
• equals
• toString