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Question

I have a JTable which i wish to extend from a basetable i have developed.
The sub classes do not seem to inherit the superclasses contructor. Am i missing something?
Here is the super class....
public class AbstractTable extends JTable{
     protected Statement stmt;
    /** Creates a new instance of AbstractTable */
    public AbstractTable() {
        setVisible(true);
        setBorder(new javax.swing.border.EtchedBorder());
        setToolTipText("Search Results");
        setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
        setAutoResizeMode(javax.swing.JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF);
        setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
        setDoubleBuffered(true);
        setColumnSelectionAllowed(false);
     // optional
        setBackground(new Color(220,220,220));
        setSelectionMode(ListSelectionModel.MULTIPLE_INTERVAL_SELECTION);
        setAutoResizeMode(AUTO_RESIZE_OFF);
        // Enable tool tips for the table, without this tool tips will not
        // be picked up.
        ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().registerComponent(this);
           setupConnection ();
    }Here is the cub class
public class SLATable extends fyp.AbstractTable{
    private MyDBConnection mdbc;
    private java.sql.Statement stmt;
    JTable SLATable = new javax.swing.JTable();
    /** Creates a new instance of SLATable */
    public SLATable()  {
        super();
    public JTable setSLATable(String searchString){...}

Answer 1

I have a JTable which i wish to extend from a
basetable i have developed.
The sub classes do not seem to inherit the
superclasses contructor. Am i missing something?Constructors are never inherited.
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Here is the cub class
public class SLATable extends
fyp.AbstractTable{
private MyDBConnection mdbc;
private java.sql.Statement stmt;
JTable SLATable = new javax.swing.JTable();
Having an instance variable (if you are aware that this is an instance variable) with the same name as the class could be very confusing to someone reading your code.
From the short bit of code you've provided, extending JTable seems unnecessary. See:
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/designprinciples4.html