Does Java support dynamic method invocation?
- by eSKay
class A { void F() { System.out.println("a"); }}
class B extends A { void F() { System.out.println("b"); }}
public class X {
public static void main(String[] args) {
A objA = new B();
objA.F();
}
}
Here, F() is being invoked dynamically, isn't it?
This article says
... the Java bytecode doesn’t support
dynamic method invocation. There are
three supported invocations modes :
invokestatic, invokespecial,
invokeinterface or invokevirtual.
These modes allows to call methods
with known signature. We talk of
strongly typed language. This allows
to to make some checks directly at
compile time.
On the other side, the dynamic
languages use dynamic types. So we can
call a method unknown at the compile
time, but that’s completely impossible
with the Java bytecode.
What am I missing?
