(Sorry for bad english) Hi, i'm a High school student, i studied a little bit of Java by myself. My teacher asked if you can write 2 methods with switched but same parametrer. Ex:
public void method (String arg1, int arg2){
}
public void method(int arg1, String arg2){
}
.. I said yes, the teacher said that i dont know what overloading means but i tested and It worked and then She said "JDK has a bug" and She got mad at me.
Please i need a super and complete question.
As mentioned in the official Oracle Java tutorial:
Java can distinguish between methods with different method signatures
On the same page, "method signature" is defined as
Two of the components of a method declaration comprise the method signature—the method's name and the parameter types.
Since the parameter types are a list, they also have a fixed order (Unlike e.g. a set).
Thus two parameter lists with the same types (But a different order) are considered different parameter type lists, which in turn allows you to declare two methods with the same name and these two parameter type lists without causing compile time errors.
Edit: For more details refer to the Java Language Specification, chapter 8.4.2.