Every class in Java inherits from the class Object, whether direcly or in-directly. The class provides a set of basic behaviours to all objects but no basic state - there are no variables declared in the Object class.

Constructor

Object()

Methods

Object clone() Creates and returns a copy of this object

boolean equals(Object obj) Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.

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You may, or may not, know that I like to "tweak" things. I often find, particalarly with web type stuff, that what's available to me doesn't quite meet my needs, so I fiddle with things until they do. The changes I make wouldn't necessarily suit everyone, it's almost impossible to write something that would, and they don't necessarily follow the same thread as that set out by the original author, but they work for me and I figure as long as I don't break anything (that I can't fix) it's ok for me to continue along this track.

I while ago I wrote a fairly complex script that required user interaction at several points and eventually feeding the results into several csv files. To accomplish this I was having to store objects in session variables and then retrieve them when needed. All was going well, the script was working as far as running but when the csv files were opened they contained nothing but php errors complaining about not being able to access the objects functions. Not good, especially as this particular piece of code was needed the following day.

Due to many things the fault logger had sat around for a while without any work. Until this weekend that is, when it was dusted off, loaded up... and broken?

Most of it was working, it was obviously talking to the database ok, all the SELECT statements were working, but, when it came to inserting data (a rather useful function in a fault logger!) nothing was happening. No error. Nothing.

Much head scratching ensued, including by someone who actually knew what he was talking about. We tested everything we could think of, to no avail. It needed to be slept on.

M360, or to give it it's full title - Developing Internet Applications - is a 30 point level 3 course.

The course, as you would expect, focuses on the development of Internet applications but in doing so touches on a number of key subjects including security, XML, serverside and client side scripting amongst others (I will be a better position to tell you about these when I've finished!).

The language focused on in the course is that of Java and it is largely a follow on course from M301 which I studied last year.