Re: Inheritance Question

Thanks for your reply. After posting, I did additional testing and
came up with a solution that seems to work. It is similar to what you
provided Joshua.

I simply added an accessor method to the abstract class and then I
override it in the child class.

//Parent Class
public abstract class Fruit {
    protected String fruit = "Fruit";

    public String getFruit() { //<------New accessor method
        return fruit;
    }

    public String whatAmI() {
        return getFruit(); //<------Reference accessor instead of
variable
    }
}

//Subclass
public class Apple extends Fruit {
    protected String fruit = "Apple";

    public String getFruit() { //<------Override only the accessor
method.
        return fruit;
    }

    public static void main(String [] args) {
        Apple myApple = new Apple();

        System.out.println("-->" + myApple.whatAmI() );
    }
}

Now the program outputs 'Apple' as needed. I also tested this in my
actual program and it is working fine.

Thank you.