Method Overloading in Java

When a class has multiple methods having same name but different in parameters known as Method Overloading.


Advantage

  • It increases the readability of the program.

Different ways to overload the method

  • By changing no. of arguments.
  • By changing the data type.

Example -

class Ad
{
static int add(int a,int b){return a+b;}
static int add(int a,int b,int c){return a+b+c;}
}
class Overloading{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(Ad.add(1,22));
System.out.println(Ad.add(1,22,31));
}
}

Output

 23
54