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

They are entirely doing diffrent things. they are not same at all.

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

This first invokes getType of property and then casts the returned Object to SimpleType

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

This first casts the property to SimpleType and then invokes getType on the SimpleType