Hello, you should create proper parent class and establish hierarchy where child class will extend its parent something like that:
public class Example1 { private String ex; public Example1( ) { } public Example1( String ex) { this.ex = ex; } public String getEx() { return ex; }; public class ExChild extends Example1 { public ExChild(String ex) { super(ex); } Next in main instantiate both parent and child objects and call proper methods for parent and child: public static void main(String[] arg) { Example1 parent = new Example1("hello world from parent"); Example1 child = new ExChild("hello from child"); System.out.println("Parent: " + parent.getClass() + ", " + parent.getEx()); System.out.println("Child: " + child.getClass() + ", " + child.getEx()); } Regards, Moria. -----Original Message----- From: java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion@googlegroups.com [mailto:java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-pass...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of tedpottel Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:45 AM To: Java EE (J2EE) Programming with Passion! Subject: [java ee programming] Trying to get a child calss to call a function in its parent class Hi, Can I get this to work, package pacTestLib; public class clTestLib { public static void main(String[] arg) { System.out.println("hello world"); testLibClass cl = new testLibClass(this); cl.test(); } public CallPar() { System.out.println("hello from parent"); } } I'm trying to find out a way for a child to access its parent, Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java EE (J2EE) Programming with Passion!" group. To post to this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---