Question

Following a tutorial on the internet regarding Soap development with Java, I found this link, with a rather unusual code for myself.

The code:

public class SoapService extends Object {

    /** Creates new SoapService */
    public SoapService() {
    }

/** This is the SOAP exposes method
*/
    public String sayGreeting(String name)
    {
        return "Hello "+name;
    }
}

What’s with the ‘extends Object’ syntax ? I’ve never encountered this kind of syntax (only on Generics).

Does this syntax has any purpose or is ‘plain dumb’ ?

Answer 1

Unless the Object class is not actually the java.lang.Object class (the tutorial does not include the imports, so it’s hard to see), the extends Object is redundant.