ServletContext is not declared abstract (ref. j2sdkee 1.3 API). It's an
interface. If you are seeing it declared abstract then you are looking at a
very old API. In Java 1.x, interfaces were declared "abstract interface"
but that's redundant as interfaces are abstract by definition.
Cheers!
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bo Xu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: Simple but interesting..
> "Rajehswar V. Rao" wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark,Pier,Milt,
> > The discussion took different direction....
> > Please anybody can answer why ServletContext declared ABSRTACT...
> > Is anybody sun guy out there who can answer this.....
> >
> > -raj-
> > [...]
>
> Hi :-) I think it is because:
> - javax.servlet.ServletContext is a interface, so no matter
> it is declared abstract or not, it is always abstract: i.e.
> % if it is not declared abstract, it is still abstract.
> % if it is declared abstract, this "syntax" also can be compiled.
>
> - from the source code of ServletContext.java in
> jakarta-servletapi-4_0-b5.zip:
>
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b5/src/
>
> javax.servlet.ServletContext is not declared abstract.
>
>
>
> Bo
> June 29, 2001
>
>
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