Java terminology for differentiating runtime type from compile-time type

Question

In Java, an Object can have a runtime type (which is what it was created as) and a casted type (the type you have casted it to be).

I\'m wondering what

Answer 1

I would say that you differentiate between the type of the variable/reference and the type of the object. In the case

A a = new B();

the variable/reference would be of type A but the object of type B.