@override annotation

Question

Can anyone tell me if this code:

public class OvTester {
    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return toString().hashCode();
    }
}

Answer 1

Method overriding happens when you redefine a method with the same signature in a sublcass.

So here you are overriding hashCode(), not toString()

The @Override annotation is optional (but a very good thing) and indicates that this is expected to be overriding. If you misspell something or have a wrongly-typed parameter, the compiler will warn you.

So yes, the 2nd statement is true (and the superclass in this case is java.lang.Object)