Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

10.5.5 Indirect Concrete Subclass BasePlusCommissionEmployee

Class BasePlusCommissionEmployee (Fig. 10.8) extends class CommissionEmployee (line 4) and therefore is an indirect subclass of class Employee. Class BasePlusCommissionEmployee has a constructor (lines 9–20) that receives a first name, a last name, a social security number, a sales amount, a commission rate and a base salary. It then passes all of these except the base salary to the CommissionEmployee constructor (lines 13–14) to initialize the superclass instance variables. BasePlusCommissionEmployee also contains a set method (lines 23–29) to assign a new value to instance variable baseSalary and a get method (lines 32–35) to return baseSalary’s value. Method earnings (lines 38–42) ...