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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: Using main from abstract class in concrete class
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:59:26 -0000 (UTC)
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Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> wrote:
> I have an abstract class. There can be several concrete classes that
> extend this class. Is it possible to write a main in the abstract
> class which will be used by the concrete classes and that in the main
> a instance of the concrete class is created?

The first part of the question is trivially yes: derived classes that
don't provide their own main() will get your "abstract" class's main().
I guess, you knew that already.

For the other part,
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/939932/how-to-determine-main-class-at-runtime-in-threaded-java-application
seems to imply that short of some non-reliable environment variables
or system properties there is no reliable way to know which class was
originally started.