Question

I am fairly new to java and in my code I need a child class to be able to make a an object of its parent class I am pretty sure there is a java keyword that does this but when I searched Google for it nothing came up.

Answer 1

A nice feature about polymorphism is that every instance of the child type is also an instance of the parent type. All of these “return an object of the parent type”;

class Parent
{
  ... stuff
}

class Child extends Parent
{
  Parent newParent1()
  {
    return this;
  }

  Parent newParent2()
  {
    return new Child();
  }

  Parent newParent3()
  {
    return new Parent();
  }