Android™ How to Program, Second Edition

G.10.2. Concrete Subclass SalariedEmployee

Class SalariedEmployee (Fig. G.17) extends class Employee (line 4) and overrides abstract method earnings (lines 33–37), which makes SalariedEmployee a concrete class. The class includes a constructor (lines 9–14) that takes a first name, a last name, a social security number and a weekly salary as arguments; a set method to assign a new nonnegative value to instance variable weeklySalary (lines 17–24); a get method to return weeklySalary’s value (lines 27–30); a method earnings (lines 33–37) to calculate a SalariedEmployee’s earnings; and a method toString (lines 40–45), which returns a String including the employee’s type, namely, "salaried employee: " followed by employee-specific information produced ...