Solved Bodyless methods?

As you can see in the bukkit source, there are lots of methods which look like this:
(I am using the player object for example: link)

Code:java

public String getDisplayName();

And I was really wondering how it is possible, that it still returns the correct value, because my methods always look like this:

Code:java

public String myMethod(){
return this.myMethodString;
}

 

Datdenkikniet interfaces

 

SuperOmegaCow can you give me a link to an example class to that?

 

Player
http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/

 

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/concepts/interface.html

 

Datdenkikniet The Player class is just an interface and is implemented by CraftPlayer where the real execution happens.

 

It's not a class, it's an interface. Interfaces are basically outlines for classes to fill with actual content. In this case, the 'Player' interface of Bukkit is implemented by the 'CraftPlayer' class in CraftBukkit.

Bukkit is an API, CraftBukkit is an implementation of that API. That's why you have to run CraftBukkit when making a server.

 

Sagacious_Zed zeeveener DarkBladee12 Stealth2800 SuperOmegaCow Thanks! I get it now!