Re: Strange runtime error: AbstractMethodError
<opalpa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[details of my original problem snipped]
That's quite confounding. What does the end of the this line mean?
com.castortech.common.parser.tokenstreaming.Token.getParent()Lnet/sf/
saxon/om/NodeInfo
Why is the end NodeInfo instead of SiblingCountingNode?
Do multiple interfaces have the same method signature in them?
Does the same method name have different signatures? That is: is
there a getParent with parameters along with the parameterless
getParent?
These are just a couple of thoughts. It appears that you've found a
fault in Java.
Will write if any other thoughts come to mind. Good luck Oliver.
Thanks. It looks like you were on the right track: I posted a second
SSCCE that doesn't require any external libraries, and it does seem to
involve multiple interfaces with the same method, but with different
signatures. However, I still don't know whether this is a problem with the
JVM, compiler, or my understanding of Java, so I'm not yet able to fix the
"real" code where this problem is occurring.
- Oliver
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