Push Down Method

This refactoring moves a method into the one or more child classes. When the method is moved to the child class class, the appropriate import statements are added to the file containing child class. This refactoring leaves an abstract method call in the original class.

To push down a method, right click on the method, select "Method Refactorings", and select push down.

Warning: If all child classes of the parent class don't implement the newly pushed up method, they will not compile.

Last Modified: 30 October 2003