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

I don't believe so; not if you're overriding method1() in a subclass. If you really required that behavior, you'd have to declare A.method1() as final, and you couldn't define it in B.

It doesn't make sense to me to do this - you should reconsider your design if you think you need to!