On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Dipl. Ing. Paul Szawlowski wrote:
> I just encountered a problem which I think should get resolved.
> I wanted to implement a class which implements the InputDevice interface
> and inherits from Behavior.
Ummm... without knowing the exact details of what you are are doing, this
sounds like something that will get very nasty very quickly. What you have
are two separate threaded entities working together within a single class.
Something that is a design issue that is marked as 'Don't do@ in any
mutlihtrreaded classes ever taught. If you need these talking togehter then
you should do this via a thirdparty class using a standard producer-consumer
model. This will avoid deadlocks that will occur in your application that
putting the two threads into the one class will do.
> For that I need unfortunatly a method initialize with no parameters
> which shall return void in one case and boolean in the other.
Talk to the langauge designers. That's a Java language issue and not one you
will get a positive answer for. Having the same method signature but different
return value types is not a capability of any strongly typed language that
I am aware of.
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