Force invocation of base class method

Question

The following code when run obviously prints out \"B1/A2/B2\". Now, is it possible for it to print \"A1/A2/B2\" instead (i.e. A#method2() should invoke method1() on A, not

Answer 1

Even I WAS looking for this solution. It seems its not possible. Changing the base class is not an option. i.e. assuming that base class is already written and you are deriving a class from it, there's nothing you can do in the derived class so that the base class calls its own methods and not overridden methods. if you are making an object of the derived class, base class will call overridden methods of derived class instead of calling its own methods. that's OOPS....