From: Ayaz Ahmed Khan Date: 2006-12-16T23:30:09+09:00 Subject: Re: calling child from parent "dc" typed: > i understand super passes method calls up to the parent. > is there a way to call down to the child instance, to a different method? > I guess the other way is to instantiate the right child servlet in the > webserver, but this means i dont get access to super methods... My OO know-how may have turned rusty, but isn't a Parent class (and therefore its object) oblivous of its children (and therefore the methods and whatever defined in its children)? Why not re-define do_GET in Servlet1? -- Ayaz Ahmed Khan "Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree." -- Professor W.