Issue about casting object brackets

Question

I have noticed that there are two ways to cast objects (the difference is the placement of the outer parenthesis):

 1. SimpleType simpleType = ((SimpleType)          


        

Answer 1

No they are not doing the same thing.

SimpleType simpleTypee = ((SimpleType) (property.getType()));

First the property.getType() will be called and the object returned by property.getType() will be casted to SimpleType

and in the second case

SimpleType simpletype = ((SimpleType) property).getType();

first the object property will be casted to SimpleType and then getType() will be invoked on that newly casted object